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First Person Jewish

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Description for First Person Jewish Paperback. Series: Visible Evidence. Num Pages: 224 pages, 17 b&w photos. BIC Classification: APFA; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 12. Weight in Grams: 426.

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, using it to explore disparate definitions of the self in relation to the larger groups of family and community.

 

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, ... Read more

 

Using a multidisciplinary approach to first person films, Lebow shows how this form of self-expression is challenging both autobiography and documentary and, in the process, changing the art of cinema and recording the cultural shifts of our time.

 

Alisa S. Lebow is a filmmaker and lecturer in film and TV studies at Brunel University.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Condition
New
Series
Visible Evidence
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816643554
SKU
V9780816643554
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