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Unsettling : Jews, whiteness, and incest in American popular culture / by Eli Bromberg

Bromberg, Eli [Verfasserin/Verfasser]

New Brunswick ; Camden ; Newark ; New Jersey ; London : Rutgers University Press, [2021] [© 2021]

vii, 194 Seiten

Englisch

Based on the author's dissertation (doctoral)--University of Massachusetts, 2018. - Includes bibliographical references and index

Erscheint auch als: Unsettling / Bromberg, Eli [GNDNR:1221276999] (Online-Ausgabe)

Erscheint auch als: Unsettling / Bromberg, Eli [GNDNR:1221276999] (Online-Ausgabe)

Erscheint auch als: Unsettling / Bromberg, Eli [GNDNR:1221276999] (Online-Ausgabe)

Rezensiert in: [Rezension von: Bromberg, Eli, Unsettling] / Golan Moskowitz, 2022

978-1-9788-0724-2 (paperback); 978-1-9788-0728-0 (hardcover)

978-1-9788-0725-9 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe); 978-1-9788-0726-6 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe); 978-1-9788-0727-3 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe)

2020004941

OCoLC: 1241696753     

P94.5.J482

305.892/4073     Ähnliche Literatur

Basisklassifikation: 05.30 (Massenkommunikation; Massenmedien: Allgemeines) ; 15.07 (Kulturgeschichte) ; 73.73 (Ethnische Identität) <Ethnologie>

Fachinformationsdienst(e): FID-AAC-DE-7

SSG-Nummer(n): 0; 1

*USA ; Massenkultur ; Massenmedien ; Juden ; Berühmte Persönlichkeit ; Männlichkeit ; Ethnische Identität ; Berichterstattung ; Geschichte 1990-2020     Zum Register

LOC-SH: Jews in mass media ; Incest in mass media ; Racism in mass media ; Stereotypes (Social psychology) in mass media ; Mass media -- United States ; Whites -- Race identity -- United States ; Incest in popular culture -- United States ; Jews in popular culture -- United States

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.

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"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"--