Unsettling : Jews, whiteness, and incest in American popular culture /

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Author / Creator:Bromberg, Eli, author.
Imprint:New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2021]
Description:1 online resource
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13456952
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ISBN:9781978807273
1978807279
9781978807266
1978807260
9781978807259
1978807252
9781978807242
9781978807280
Notes:Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Massachusetts, 2018.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 02, 2020).
Summary:"By analyzing how various media told stories about Jewish celebrities and incest, Unsettling illustrates how Jewish community protective politics impacted the representation of white male Jewish masculinity in the 1990s. Chapters on Woody Allen, Roseanne Barr, and Henry Roth demonstrate how media coverage of their respective incest denials (Allen), allegations (Barr), and confessions (Roth) intersect with a history of sexual antisemitism, while an introductory chapter on Jewish second-wave feminist criticism of Sigmund Freud considers how Freud became "white" in these discussions. Unsettling reveals how film, TV, and literature have helped displace once prevalent antisemitic stereotypes onto those who are non-Jewish, nonwhite, and poor. In considering how whiteness functions for an ethno-religious group with historic vulnerability to incest stereotype as well as contemporary white privilege, Unsettling demonstrates how white Jewish men accused of incest, and even those who defiantly confess it, became improbably sympathetic figures representing supposed white male vulnerability"--
Other form:Print version: Bromberg, Eli. Unsettling. New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, 2020 9781978807242