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Theatrical Liberalism – Jews and Popular Entertainment in America

Autor Andrea Most
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 20 mai 2013

Finalist for the 2013 National Jewish Book Award, American Jewish Studies
For centuries, Jews were one of the few European cultures without any official public theatrical tradition. Yet in the modern era, Jews were among the most important creators of popular theater and film¿especially in America. Why?



In Theatrical Liberalism, Andrea Most illustrates how
American Jews used the theatre and other media to navigate their encounters
with modern culture, politics, religion, and identity,
negotiating a position for themselves within and alongside Protestant American
liberalism by reimagining key aspects of traditional Judaism as
theatrical. Discussing works as diverse as the Hebrew Bible, The
Jazz Singer, and Death of a Salesman¿among many others¿Most situates American
popular culture in the multiple religious traditions that informed the
worldviews of its practitioners.



Offering a comprehensive history of the role of Judaism in the
creation of American entertainment, Theatrical Liberalism re-examines the distinction between the secular and the religious in both Jewish and American contexts, providing a new way of understanding Jewish liberalism and its place in a pluralist society. With extensive scholarship and compelling evidence, Theatrical Liberalism shows how the Jewish worldview that permeates American culture has reached far beyond the Jews who created it.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780814724620
ISBN-10: 0814724620
Pagini: 304
Ilustrații: black & white illustrations, figures
Dimensiuni: 153 x 227 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Editura: Wiley

Recenzii

“Makes new sense of aspects of popular culture we have all grown up with and thought we knew only too well. Most bridges religious studies and theater, political theory and American studies, high criticism and middlebrow performance. Her book will help us see better how Jews and their Jewishness did not merely `enter' American popular culture, but did so much to invent it.” Jonathan Boyarin, Leonard and Tobee Kaplan Distinguished Professor of Modern Jewish Thought, University of North Carol"Demonstrates why and how Jews have been central to the development of Broadway, Tin Pan Alley, and Hollywood. Taking us on a rollercoaster ride through popular culture, from The Jazz Singer and Death of a Salesman to My Fair Lady and Blazing Saddles, Most analyzes the social anxieties that swirl around American self-fashioning and explains why these anxieties repeatedly play themselves out in competing notions of theatricality. Most radically, she shows us that so many of the most Jewish features of popular culture are also the most American—that American popular culture is Jewish culture." David Savran, Vera Mowry Roberts Chair in American Theatre, CUNY

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Shows how the Jewish worldview that permeates American culture has reached far beyond the Jews who created it.