Why Harry met Sally : subversive Jewishness, Anglo-Christian power, and the rhetoric of modern love /
From immigrant ghetto love stories such as The Cohens and the Kellys (1926), through romantic comedies including Meet the Parents (2000) and Knocked Up (2007), to television series such as Transparent (2014- ), Jewish-Christian couplings have been a staple of popular culture for over a century. In t...
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| Format: | Government Document Book |
| Language: | English |
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Austin :
University of Texas Press,
2017.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction. Sally's orgasm
- The first wave : the mouse-mountains of modernity (1905-1934)
- Disraeli's page: performative Jewishness in the public sphere
- Kafka's ape: literary modernism, Jewish animality, and the crisis of the new cosmopolitanism
- Abie's Irish Rose: immigrant couplings, utopian multiculturalism, and the early American film industry
- The second wave : erotic Schlemiels of the counterculture (1967-1980)
- Benjamin's cross: Israel, New Hollywood, and the Jewish transgressive (1947-1967)
- Portnoy's monkey: postwar literature, stand-up comedy, and the emergence of the carnal Jew (1955-1969)
- Katie's typewriter: Hollywood romance, historical rewrite, and the subversive sexuality of the counterculture (1967-1980)
- The third wave : global Fockers at the millennium (1993-2007)
- Spiegelman's frog: coded Jewish metamorph and Christian witnessing (1978-1992)
- Seinfeld's mailman: global television and the wandering sitcom (1993-2000)
- Gaylord's tulip: fluid and fluidity at the millennium (1993-2008)
- Conclusion. Plato's retweet.