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‘It’s not that I’m afraid to die…’, by Messham-Muir, Kit

“…'I don't want to be there when it happens' shares its title with one of the exhibition's central works by Adeela Suleman, which in turn borrows a line from Woody Allen's 1975 play Death: A Comedy in One Act. …”
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Not really white--again: performing Jewish difference in Hollywood films since the 1980s by Stratton, Jon

“…Yentl, produced and directed by Barbra Streisand, who also starred in it, was the realisation of a long-term personal dream made possible only after she agreed to make the film as a musical. Zelig, a Woody Allen film, was made in black and white as a pseudo-documentary and Desperately Seeking Susan, the first film for director Susan Seidelman, started out as a low-budget, independent production.These, and later films, begin to address the problem of representing Jews, and Jewishness, in the context of a socio-political move in the United States away from the forms of identification located in the ideology of cultural pluralism and towards those of multiculturalism. …”
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