First person Jewish /

Alisa S. Lebow examines films from Jewish artists to reveal how the postmodern impulse to turn the lens inward intersects provocatively (and at times unwittingly) with historical tropes and stereotypes of the Jew. Using a multidisciplinary approach Lebow shows how this form of self-expression is cha...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lebow, Alisa
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press ©2008.
Series:Visible evidence ; v. 22.
Online Access:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/j.ctttv0cm
Table of Contents:
  • Memory once removed: indirect memory and transitive autobiography in Chantal Akerman's D'Est
  • Reframing the Jewish family
  • A treyf autocritique of autobiography
  • Ambivalence and ambiguity in queer Jewish subjectivity
  • Conclusion: a limit case for Jewish autoethnography.