Enter the Schlemiel: The Emergence of Inadequate or Incompetent Masculinities in Recent Film and Television

Though a good deal has been written on the schlemiel, in literature as well as in film and television, its focus has been chiefly on the construction and/or critique of male Jewishness or, indeed, of Jewish masculinity. The figure of the schlemiel, however, may also be seen rather as representing th...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Buchbinder, David
Format: Journal Article
Published: University of Calgary Press 2008
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/10937