{"product_id":"why-harry-met-sally-subversive-jewishness-anglo-christian-power-and-the-rhetoric-of-modern-love-paperback-softback-9781477312834","title":"Why Harry Met Sally; Subversive Jewishness, Anglo-Christian Power, and the Rhetoric of Modern Love (Paperback \/ softback) 9781477312834","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eWhy Harry Met Sally\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eSubversive Jewishness, Anglo-Christian Power, and the Rhetoric of Modern Love\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJoshua Louis Moss (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781477312834, University of Texas Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 18 July 2017\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e360 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 3.1 cm, 0.454 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\u003cdiv\u003eEssential. This richly detailed book on interfaith relationships—specifically between Jews and Christians—fills a real gap in cinema studies. . . Though the title of the book is a play on the 1989 romantic comedy \u003ci\u003eWhen Harry Met Sally\u003c\/i\u003e, Moss examines a truly encyclopedic series of texts, both filmic and literary, and dives deep into the subject, offering dazzling insights on nearly every page.\u003c\/div\u003e (Choice) \u003cdiv\u003eMoss’s argument is a refreshing break from the jeremiads that often accompany analyses of the representation of Jews in popular culture. . . the [questions] addressed by Moss in this work are both interesting and of value to Jews, non-Jews, and students of American Judaism and American religion more broadly conceived.\u003c\/div\u003e (Reading Religion) \u003cdiv\u003eMoss has accomplished a tour de force, and his coupling theory is worth the extended consideration he hopes it will receive…His work will be of interest to media studies, Jewish studies and American studies, to name just a few relevant areas.\u003c\/div\u003e (Journal for Religion, Film and Media) \u003cdiv\u003e[An] extensive, multigenerational, multidisciplinary survey of Jewish-Christian couplings...\u003ci\u003eWhy Harry Met Sally\u003c\/i\u003e makes an important contribution to film and television history and is a valuable resource insofar as it points to just about every significant American film, Broadway show, and television show engaging the themes of Christian-Jewish coupling and links them to a broader literary history of this theme.\u003c\/div\u003e (Jewish Historical Studies) \u003cdiv\u003eRich and engrossing…Moss's prodigious and impressive scholarship contributes an extremely important addition to the canon of academic writing on romantic comedy.\u003c\/div\u003e (Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television) \u003cdiv\u003eMoss's infusion of 'coupling theory' into the way interfaith relationships are both presented in popular media and read by audiences is nothing short of brilliant, and should be a methodological tool that all scholars in these fields immediately take up...a must-read for many scholars.\u003c\/div\u003e (Studies in American Jewish Literature)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom immigrant ghetto love stories such as \u003ci\u003eThe Cohens and the Kellys\u003c\/i\u003e (1926), through romantic comedies including \u003ci\u003eMeet the Parents\u003c\/i\u003e (2000) and \u003ci\u003eKnocked Up\u003c\/i\u003e (2007), to television series such as \u003ci\u003eTransparent\u003c\/i\u003e (2014–), Jewish-Christian couplings have been a staple of popular culture for over a century. In these pairings, Joshua Louis Moss argues, the unruly screen Jew is the privileged representative of progressivism, secular modernism, and the cosmopolitan sensibilities of the mass-media age. But his\/her unruliness is nearly always contained through romantic union with the Anglo-Christian partner. This Jewish-Christian meta-narrative has recurred time and again as one of the most powerful and enduring, although unrecognized, mass-culture fantasies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUsing the innovative framework of coupling theory, \u003ci\u003eWhy Harry Met Sally\u003c\/i\u003e surveys three major waves of Jewish-Christian couplings in popular American literature, theater, film, and television. Moss explores how first-wave European and American creators in the early twentieth century used such couplings as an extension of modernist sensibilities and the American “melting pot.” He then looks at how New Hollywood of the late 1960s revived these couplings as a sexually provocative response to the political conservatism and representational absences of postwar America. Finally, Moss identifies the third wave as emerging in television sitcoms, Broadway musicals, and “gross-out” film comedies to grapple with the impact of American economic globalism since the 1990s. He demonstrates that, whether perceived as a threat or a triumph, Jewish-Christian couplings provide a visceral, easily graspable, template for understanding the rapid transformations of an increasingly globalized world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction. Sally’\u003cbr\u003es Orgasm\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart One. The First Wave: The Mouse-Mountains of Modernity (1905–\u003cbr\u003e1934) \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 1. Disraeli’\u003cbr\u003es Page: Performative Jewishness in the Public Sphere\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 2. Kafka’\u003cbr\u003es Ape: Literary Modernism, Jewish Animality, and the Crisis of the New Cosmopolitanism\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 3. Abie’\u003cbr\u003es Irish Rose: Immigrant Couplings, Utopian Multiculturalism, and the Early American Film Industry\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart Two. The Second Wave: Erotic Schlemiels of the Counterculture (1967–\u003cbr\u003e1980) \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 4. Benjamin’\u003cbr\u003es Cross: Israel, New Hollywood, and the Jewish Transgressive (1947–\u003cbr\u003e1967)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 5. Portnoy’\u003cbr\u003es Monkey: Postwar Literature, Stand-Up Comedy, and the Emergence of the Carnal Jew (1955–\u003cbr\u003e1969)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 6. Katie’\u003cbr\u003es Typewriter: Hollywood Romance, Historical Rewrite, and the Subversive Sexuality of the Counterculture\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart Three. The Third Wave: Global Fockers at the Millennium (1993–\u003cbr\u003e2007) \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 7. Spiegelman’\u003cbr\u003es Frog: Coded Jewish Metamorph and Christian Witnessing (1978–\u003cbr\u003e1992)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 8. Seinfeld’\u003cbr\u003es Mailman: Global Television and the Wandering Sitcom (1993–\u003cbr\u003e2000)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 9. Gaylord’\u003cbr\u003es Tulip: Fluid and Fluidity at the Millennium (1993–\u003cbr\u003e2008)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eConclusion. Plato’\u003cbr\u003es Retweet\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNotes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSelected Bibliography\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIndex\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52589119865112,"sku":"9781477312834","price":22.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/why-harry-met-sally-subversive-jewishness-anglo-christian-power-and-the-rhetoric-of-modern-love-paperback-softback-9781477312834","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}