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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Nathan Abrams |
ISBN: | 9780810132825 0810132826 9780810132832 0810132834 |
OCLC Number: | 922728989 |
Description: | vii, 284 pages ; 23 cm. |
Contents: | Introduction / Nathan Abrams -- "Awaiting, with some anxiety" : the Jewish response to Jew Suss (1934) in 1930s Britain / Gil Toffell -- An anti-Nazi special relationship : British writing, Hollywood filmmaking, and The mortal storm (1940) / Phyllis Lassner and Alexis Pogorelskin -- Mr. Emmanuel (1944) : a belated British film about Nazi antisemitism / Lawrence Baron -- Jewish questions lurking in Peeping Tom (1960) / Michael Berkowitz -- "You don't cure a problem by sweeping it under the carpet" : Jews, sitcoms, and race relations in 1960s Britain / Gavin Schaffer -- From the evacuees to Grandma's house : class, sexuality, and Jewish identity on British television, 1975-2012 / Rachel Garfield -- Peckhlach : Mike Leigh's British Jewish soul / Donald Weber -- From pig farmer to infidel : hidden identities, diasporic infertility, and transethnic kinship in contemporary British Jewish cinema / Claudia Sternberg -- On the threshold : British Jewish femininity in Suzie Gold (2004) / Michele Byers -- Christmas trees and Hanukkah bushes : the "emancipation contract" in the contemporary British television dramas Hebburn and Friday night dinner / Sue Vice -- Love and betrayal : politicized romance in Peter Kosminsky's The promise (2011) / Nir Cohen. |
Series Title: | Cultural expressions of World War II. |
Responsibility: | edited by Nathan Abrams. |
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"Abrams makes a significant contribution to a broader field of Judaic studies, while contributing something notable to the specific analysis of Jews in British film and television. Simply put, this is an excellent collection and a much needed work. There is not a chapter here that I did not enjoy reading." --James Chapman, editor of The Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television Abrams makes a significant contribution to a broader field of Judaic studies, while contributing something notable to the specific analysis of Jews in British film and television. Simply put, this is an excellent collection and a much needed work. There is not a chapter here that I did not enjoy reading. James Chapman, editor ofTheHistorical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television" Read more...


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- Jews in motion pictures.
- Jews on television.
- Jews in popular culture -- Great Britain.
- Motion pictures, British -- Social aspects.
- Television programs -- Social aspects -- Great Britain.
- Juden.
- Pop-Kultur.
- Fernsehsendung.
- Film.
- Großbritannien.
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