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  • The Tropes of War

    Visual Hyperbole and Spectacular Culture

    by Andrea Greenbaum ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book examines the myriad ways in which war is culturally reassembled, appropriated, and commodified as it manifests itself in our culture and invades our public imagination and becomes an indelible part of our landscape through fashion, movies, graphic novels, television etc. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Jewish Women in Comics

    Bodies and Borders

    Edited by Heike Bauer, Andrea Greenbaum, Sarah Lightman ...
    In this groundbreaking collection of essays, interviews, and artwork, contributors draw upon a rich treasure trove of Jewish women’s comics to explore the representation of Jewish women’s bodies and bodily experience in pictorial narratives. Spanning national, cultural, and artistic borders, the essays shine a light on the significant contributions of Jewish women to comics.The volume features ... Read more

    $28.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Superman Is Jewish?

    How Comic Book Superheroes Came to Serve Truth, Justice, and the Jewish-American Way

    by Harry Brod ...
    From a brilliant and witty comic book aficionado, this “scholarly but lively narrative” (Kirkus Reviews) reveals the links between Jews and the iconic superheroes of Jerry Siegel, Joe Shuster, Stan Lee, and Jack Kirby.Many of us know that thesuperheroes at the heart of the American comic book industry were created by Jews. But you’d be surprised to learn how much these beloved characters were ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Anne Frank Unbound

    Media, Imagination, Memory

    by Barbara Kishenblatt-Gimblett, Jeffrey Shandler ...
    Series series The Modern Jewish Experience
    "A brilliantly conceived and long overdue opening up [or deconstruction] of the Anne Frank story." —James Clifford, Professor Emeritus, History of Consciousness Department, University of CaliforniaAs millions of people around the world who have read her diary attest, Anne Frank, the most familiar victim of the Holocaust, has a remarkable place in contemporary memory. Anne Frank Unbound looks ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Tough Enough

    Arbus, Arendt, Didion, McCarthy, Sontag, Weil

    by Deborah Nelson ...
    This book focuses on six brilliant women who are often seen as particularly tough-minded: Simone Weil, Hannah Arendt, Mary McCarthy, Susan Sontag, Diane Arbus, and Joan Didion. Aligned with no single tradition, they escape straightforward categories. Yet their work evinces an affinity of style and philosophical viewpoint that derives from a shared attitude toward suffering. What Mary McCarthy ... Read more

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  • Jewish Comedy

    A Serious History

    by Jeremy Dauber ...
    **Finalist for the National Jewish Book Award“Dauber deftly surveys the whole recorded history of Jewish humour.” —Economist**In a major work of scholarship that explores the funny side of some very serious business (and vice versa), Jeremy Dauber examines the origins of Jewish comedy and its development from biblical times to the age of Twitter. Organizing Jewish comedy into “seven strands” ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

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  • Queer Theory and the Jewish Question

    Edited by Daniel Boyarin, Daniel Itzkovitz, Ann Pellegrini ...
    Series series Between Men-Between Women: Lesbian and Gay Studies
    The essays in this volume boldly map the historically resonant intersections between Jewishness and queerness, between homophobia and anti-Semitism, and between queer theory and theorizations of Jewishness. With important essays by such well-known figures in queer and gender studies as Judith Butler, Daniel Boyarin, Marjorie Garber, Michael Moon, and Eve Sedgwick, this book is not so much ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • A Nazi Word for a Nazi Thing

    by So Mayer ...
    In 1937 the Nazis staged an exhibition of seized artworks to showcase the 'perverse Jewish spirit' pervading German culture. It contained work by Jewish artists, but also those were queer or foreign. It was an event that sought to define degeneracy and put it on display. This exhibition, Entartete Kunst, is just a single episode in a long running culture war, one that has always been fought on ... Read more

    $7.29 USD

  • Jews and Humor

    Edited by Leonard J. Greenspoon ...
    Series series Studies in Jewish Civilization
    Jews and humor is, for most people, a natural and felicitous collocation. In spite of, or perhaps because of, a history of crises and living on the edge, Jews have often created or resorted to humor. But what is humor? And what makes certain types, instances, or performances of humor "Jewish"? These are among the myriad queries addressed by the fourteen authors whose essays are collected in this ... Read more

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  • Historical Dictionary of Holocaust Cinema

    by Robert C. Reimer, Carol J. Reimer ...
    Series series Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts
    Some say that telling the story of the Holocaust is impossible, yet, artists have told the story thousands of time since the end of World War II in novels, dramas, paintings, music, sculpture, and film. Over the past seven decades, hundreds of documentaries, narrative shorts and features, and television miniseries have confronted the horrors of the past, creating an easily recognized iconography ... Read more

    $100.49 USD

  • From Shtetl to Stardom

    Jews and Hollywood

    Edited by Michael Renov, Vincent Brook ...
    Series series The Jewish Role in American Life: An Annual Review
    The influence of Jews in American entertainment from the early days of Hollywood to the present has proved an endlessly fascinating and controversial topic, for Jews and non-Jews alike. From Shtetl to Stardom: Jews and Hollywood takes an exciting and innovative approach to this rich and complex material.Exploring the subject from a scholarly perspective as well as up close and personal, the book ... Read more

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  • Disaster Drawn

    Visual Witness, Comics, and Documentary Form

    by Hillary L. Chute ...
    In hard-hitting accounts of Auschwitz, Bosnia, Palestine, and Hiroshima’s Ground Zero, comics display a stunning capacity to bear witness to trauma. Investigating how hand-drawn comics has come of age as a serious medium for engaging history, Disaster Drawn explores the ways graphic narratives by diverse artists, including Jacques Callot, Francisco Goya, Keiji Nakazawa, Art Spiegelman, and Joe ... Read more

    $25.19 USD