First Person Jewish
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
First Person Jewish
By (Author) Alisa S. Lebow
University of Minnesota Press
University of Minnesota Press
1st July 2008
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Social groups: religious groups and communities
791.43
Physical Properties
Paperback
224
Width 178mm, Height 254mm, Spine 13mm
Description
Documentaries have increasingly used the first person, with a number of prominent filmmakers finding critical and commercial success with this intimate approach. Jewish filmmakers have particularly thrived in this genre. In First Person Jewish, Alisa S. Lebow examines more than a dozen 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. Focusing her efforts on Jewish filmmakers working on the margins, Lebow analyzes the work of Jonathan Caouette, Chantal Akerman, and Alan Berliner, among others.
