{"product_id":"silver-screen-hasidic-jews-the-story-of-an-image-hardback-9780253031686","title":"Silver Screen, Hasidic Jews; The Story of an Image (Hardback) 9780253031686","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eSilver Screen, Hasidic Jews\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Story of an Image\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eShaina Hammerman (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780253031686\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 6 January 2018\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e184 pages, 20 b\u0026amp;w illus.\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.431 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Shaina Hammerman's \u003ci\u003eSilver Screen, Hasidic Jews\u003c\/i\u003e makes a valuable contribution to a growing body of scholarly work on Jewish visibility in cinema.\"—\u003ci\u003eAmerican Jewish History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eSilver Screen, Hasidic Jews\u003c\/i\u003e is an essential inclusion for any course on Jewish film, as its analyses of Hasidic images say as much about cultural Judaism as religious. It is also an important read for any scholar thinking about Jewish cultural productions of the late-twentieth century to the present through the prism of gender.\"—\u003ci\u003eJournal of Jewish Identities\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"An important work that reveals much about the directors, actors, and scriptwriters who represented Jews and Jewishness on screen. It also gives insight into the audiences that consumed and interpreted these films for four decades.\"—Maya Balakirsky Katz, author of Drawing the Iron Curtain: Jews and the Golden Age of Soviet Animation\u003cbr\u003e \"What is the power of the iconic image of a Hasidic Jew, as it flashes before our eyes on a screen?  Arguing that the shared visual vocabulary emblematized by this image speaks to concerns far beyond Hasidism, Shaina Hammerman deftly demonstrates the ways that the image of the Hasid registers ambivalences and tensions about Jewish difference and visibility in the modern world. In brilliant readings of films from The Frisco Kid to Annie Hall, Silver Screen, Hasidic Jews tells \"the story of an image,\" an image both marginal within Jewish American experience and central to the American and Jewish American imagination.\"—Naomi Seidman, \u003ci\u003eKoret Professor of Jewish Culture, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, California\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"The cinematic image of the Hasidic Jew has served as a powerfully evocative Rohrschach blot, as Shaina Hammerman demonstrates in this sensitive and insightful study. And not only for American popular culture, but for French as well, where it intersects with images of Muslim women in hijabs. Interpreted by some as a mark of authenticity, for others of performativity, it has aroused anxieties about gender as well as ethnic identity, and allowed, for good or for ill, the eternally vexed question of \"Who is a Jew?\" to be addressed in front of a mass audience.\"—Martin E. Jay, \u003ci\u003eEhrman Professor of European History, UC Berkeley\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Through an in-depth analysis of five films, from the United States and France, Shaina Hammerman shows us how the figure of the Hasidic Jew became a means for exploring national identity and belonging. Hammerman has produced a wonderfully written and insightful work, marked by nuance and subtlety.\"—Mitchell B. Hart, \u003ci\u003eProfessor of History, University of Florida\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eMotivated by Woody Allen's brief comedic transformation into a Hasidic Jew in \u003ci\u003eAnnie Hall\u003c\/i\u003e, cultural historian Shaina Hammerman examines the effects of real and imagined representations of Hasidic Jews in film, television, theater, and photography. Although these depictions could easily be dismissed as slapstick comedies and sexy dramas about forbidden relationships, Hammerman uses this ethnic imagery to ask meaningful questions about how Jewish identity, multiculturalism, belonging, and relevance are constructed on the stage and silver screen.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: When Jews are Like Jews\u003cbr\u003e 1. The Yarmulke beneath the Cowboy Hat: Signifying Jewishness in the Hasidic Western\u003cbr\u003e 2. The Jewish Type and \u003ci\u003ele juif typique: \u003c\/i\u003eTypologies of Jewishness in \u003ci\u003eLes aventures de Rabbi Jacob\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e3.\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eHard-Core Jews: Woody Allen's Religious Women and Men\u003cbr\u003e 4. Cinema \u003ci\u003ejudéité\u003c\/i\u003e: Projecting Jewish-Muslim Romance\u003cbr\u003e 5. What Lies beneath the Wig: \u003ci\u003eHester Street \u003c\/i\u003eand Adaptation\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue: Hijab, Habit, and Hasid\u003cbr\u003e Filmography and Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52525092602136,"sku":"9780253031686","price":47.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/silver-screen-hasidic-jews-the-story-of-an-image-hardback-9780253031686","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}