Corne / Vrecar Yiddish Cinema

The Drama of Troubled Communication
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-4384-9419-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 362 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series, Horizons of Cinema

Offers a bold new reading of Yiddish cinema by exploring the early diasporic cinema's fascination with media and communication.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Corne, Jonah

Vrecar, Monika

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Introduction: “The structure of communication is the infrastructure of human reality”

1. Powers of Music: A Little Letter to Mother (1938)

2. Discourse and Dialogue: The Living Orphan (1939)

3. The Mass Media Family: Kol Nidre (1939)

4. The Battle of the Books: Tevye (1939)

5. Motherhood, Migration, and the Asylum: Where Is My Child? (1937)

6. “Silence which is communication”: Motel the Operator (1939)

7. Groundlessness I (The Nation against the Jew): The Wandering Jew (1933)

8. Groundlessness II (Among the DPs): Long Is the Road (1948)

9. Mediating the Mystical: The Dybbuk (1937)

Coda
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Jonah Corne is Associate Professor in the Department of English, Theatre, Film, and Media at the University of Manitoba. Monika Vrecar is an independent scholar who holds a PhD in Philosophy and Theory of Visual Culture from the University of Primorska, Slovenia.