Not really white--again: performing Jewish difference in Hollywood films since the 1980s

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Not really white--again: performing Jewish difference in Hollywood films since the 1980s

In the 1980s there was a transformation in the way Jews, and Jewishness, were expressed in American films as a function of the increasing popular acceptance of a form of multiculturalism that celebrates ethno-racial difference and of the identity politics that is its corollary. In this article I wi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Stratton, Jon
Format:	Journal Article
Published:	OUP 2001
Subjects:	Cultural pluralism Multiculturalism Jewishness identity politics Assimilation Hollywood American films Jews
Online Access:	http://screen.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/citation/42/2/142 http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/37913

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