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Hidden in plain sight : Jews and Jewishness in British film, television, and popular culture

Title
Hidden in plain sight : Jews and Jewishness in British film, television, and popular culture / edited by Nathan Abrams.
Publication
Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2016.

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Additional Authors
Abrams, Nathan
Description
vii, 284 pages; 23 cm
Series Statement
Cultural expressions of World War II
Uniform Title
Cultural expressions of World War II.
Subject
  • Jews in motion pictures
  • Jews on television
  • Jews in popular culture > Great Britain
  • Motion pictures, British > Social aspects
  • Television programs > Social aspects > Great Britain
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Call Number
MFL 16-4620
ISBN
  • 9780810132825
  • 0810132826
  • 9780810132832
  • 0810132834
  • 9780810132849 (canceled/invalid)
  • 0810132842 (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
2016001861
OCLC
922728989
Title
Hidden in plain sight : Jews and Jewishness in British film, television, and popular culture / edited by Nathan Abrams.
Publisher
Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2016.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Cultural expressions of World War II
Cultural expressions of World War II.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
Abrams, Nathan, editor.
Research Call Number
MFL 16-4620
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