Hidden in plain sight : Jews and Jewishness in British film, television, and popular culture / edited by Nathan Abrams.

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Other Authors: Abrams, Nathan (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2016.
Series:Cultural expressions of World War II.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Nathan Abrams
  • "Awaiting, with some anxiety" : the Jewish response to Jew Suss (1934) in 1930s Britain / Gil Toffell
  • An anti-Nazi special relationship : British writing, Hollywood filmmaking, and The mortal storm (1940) / Phyllis Lassner and Alexis Pogorelskin
  • Mr. Emmanuel (1944) : a belated British film about Nazi antisemitism / Lawrence Baron
  • Jewish questions lurking in Peeping Tom (1960) / Michael Berkowitz
  • "You don't cure a problem by sweeping it under the carpet" : Jews, sitcoms, and race relations in 1960s Britain / Gavin Schaffer
  • From the evacuees to Grandma's house : class, sexuality, and Jewish identity on British television, 1975-2012 / Rachel Garfield
  • Peckhlach : Mike Leigh's British Jewish soul / Donald Weber
  • From pig farmer to infidel : hidden identities, diasporic infertility, and transethnic kinship in contemporary British Jewish cinema / Claudia Sternberg
  • On the threshold : British Jewish femininity in Suzie Gold (2004) / Michele Byers
  • Christmas trees and Hanukkah bushes : the "emancipation contract" in the contemporary British television dramas Hebburn and Friday night dinner / Sue Vice
  • Love and betrayal : politicized romance in Peter Kosminsky's The promise (2011) / Nir Cohen.