Unsettling: Jews, whiteness, and incest in American popular culture

"By analyzing how various media told stories about Jewish celebrities and incest, Unsettling illustrates how Jewish community protective politics impacted the representation of white male Jewish masculinity in the 1990s. Chapters on Woody Allen, Roseanne Barr, and Henry Roth demonstrate how med...

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Autore principale: Bromberg, Eli (Autore)
Tipo di documento: Elettronico Libro
Lingua:Inglese
Servizio "Subito": Ordinare ora.
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Pubblicazione: New Brunswick , New Jersey Rutgers University Press 2020
In:Anno: 2020
Recensioni:[Rezension von: Bromberg, Eli, Unsettling] (2022) (Moskowitz, Golan)
(sequenze di) soggetti normati:B USA / Cultura di massa / Mass media / Ebrei / Personaggio famoso / Virilità / Identità etnica / Reportage / Storia 1990-2020
Altre parole chiave:B Racism in mass media
B Mass Media (United States)
B Whites Race identity (United States)
B Jews in mass media
B Incest in mass media
B Incest in popular culture (United States)
B Electronic books
B Stereotypes (Social psychology) in mass media
B Jews in popular culture (United States)
Accesso online: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
Edizione parallela:Non elettronico
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Riepilogo:"By analyzing how various media told stories about Jewish celebrities and incest, Unsettling illustrates how Jewish community protective politics impacted the representation of white male Jewish masculinity in the 1990s. Chapters on Woody Allen, Roseanne Barr, and Henry Roth demonstrate how media coverage of their respective incest denials (Allen), allegations (Barr), and confessions (Roth) intersect with a history of sexual antisemitism, while an introductory chapter on Jewish second-wave feminist criticism of Sigmund Freud considers how Freud became "white" in these discussions. Unsettling reveals how film, TV, and literature have helped displace once prevalent antisemitic stereotypes onto those who are non-Jewish, nonwhite, and poor. In considering how whiteness functions for an ethno-religious group with historic vulnerability to incest stereotype as well as contemporary white privilege, Unsettling demonstrates how white Jewish men accused of incest, and even those who defiantly confess it, became improbably sympathetic figures representing supposed white male vulnerability"--
A Victorian Freud: A Rhetorical Analysis of Jewish Second-Wave Feminist Criticism of Freud -- Incest, Exogamy, and Jewishness on Roseanne -- Woody, Wood Yi, and Communion Wafers -- Blood Libel Humor and Incest Easter Eggs -- "Till a Khusin Comes Along" -- Conclusion.
Descrizione del documento:Based on the author's dissertation (doctoral)--University of Massachusetts, 2018
Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:1978807252