Two book announcements

From: Nathan Abrams <[email protected]>

The New Jew in Film: Exploring Jewishness and Judaism in Contemporary  
Cinema
Nathan Abrams (author)
Hardback | In Stock | £52.00

Paperback | In Stock | £14.99

Jewish film characters have existed almost as long as the medium  
itself. But around 1990, films about Jews and their representation in  
cinema multiplied and took on new forms, marking a radical rupture  
with the past. With a new generation of Jewish filmmakers, writers and  
actors at work, contemporary cinemas in Hollywood and the rest of the  
world have been depicting a multiplicity of new Jews, including tough  
Jews, brutish Jews, gay and lesbian Jews, Jewish cowboys, skinheads  
and superheroes, Jews in space and so on. Grounded in the study of  
over 300 films from Hollywood and beyond, 'The New Jew in Film'  
explores these new and changing depictions of Jews, Jewishness and  
Judaism, providing a wider, more representative picture of the subject  
than has hitherto been attempted. This is a compelling, surprising and  
provocative book, whose chapters explore masculinity, femininity,  
passivity, agency, religion, as well as a departure into new territory  
including food and bathrooms.

Its concern is to reveal how the representation of the Jew is used to  
convey confidence or anxieties about Jewish identity and history, as  
well as how it engages with questions of racial, sexual and gender  
politics. In so doing, 'The New Jew in Film' also provides a welcome  
overview of important Jewish films produced globally over the last  
twenty years.

Further information can be found here: http://www.ibtauris.com/Books/Humanities/Religion%20%20beliefs/Judaism/The%20New%20Jew%20in%20Film%20Exploring%20Jewishness%20and%20Judaism%20in%20Contemporary%20Cinema.aspx?menuitem=%7B6AEDF845-054A-4250-8CB4-C982D28AAA57%7D

Nathan Abrams
Bangor University

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From: "Lawrence Baron" <[email protected]>

The Modern Jewish Experience in World Cinema, Ed. Lawrence Baron  
(Brandeis
University Press: December 2011)

Table of Contents:
http://www.upne.com/TOC/TOC_1611682083.html

Take advantage of the pre-publication discount on Amazon.com

http://www.amazon.com/Modern-Jewish-Experience-World-Cinema/dp/1611681995