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Author Vohnsen, Mirna, author.

Title Portrayals of Jews in contemporary Argentine cinema : rethinking Argentinidad / Mirna Vohnsen
Published Woodbridge, UK : Tamesis, an imprint of Boydell & Brewer Ltd, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource (x, 193 pages) : illustration
Series Coleccion Tamesis. Serie A, Monografias ; 385
Colección Támesis. Serie A, Monografías ; 385.
Contents Jews in Argentina, National Cinema and Argentinidad -- Jews and Gauchos in Rural Argentina -- Trauma and Cultural Memory in the Aftermath of the AMIA Bombing -- Family Life and the Jewish-Gentile Marriage
Summary An in-depth study of the presence and representation of Jews in contemporary Argentine film, focusing on films shot since the year 2000
"Notwithstanding the current visual prominence of Jewish life and Jewish culture on the Argentine big screen, surprisingly little has been written about Jewish film characterization in academic scholarship. In order to fill this lacuna, Portrayals of Jews in Contemporary Argentine Cinemaexplores the depiction of the Jews of Argentina in modern Argentine cinema with particular attention to the ways in which Jews and Jewishness interact with issues of national identity. The central aim of the book is to investigate how Argentine cinema negotiates the argentinidad of Jewish Argentines, thereby adding to the mosaic that is the imagined community of Argentina. To this end, key films by both Jewish and non-Jewish directors are scrutinized, shedding light on three main areas: the masculinity of the Jewish gaucho, the effects of the 1994 AMIA bombing and family relations, including fatherhood and the intermarriage between Jews and Gentiles."--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed July 17, 2019)
Subject Motion pictures -- Argentina -- History
Jews in motion pictures.
Jews, Argentine -- Argentina
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- Spanish & Portuguese.
Jews, Argentine
Jews in motion pictures
Motion pictures
Argentina
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781787446038
1787446034