Unsettling: Jews, Whiteness, and Incest in American Popular Culture
Eli Bromberg, "Unsettling: Jews, Whiteness, and Incest in American Popular Culture"
English | ISBN: 1978807287 | 2020 | 206 pages | PDF | 3 MB
English | ISBN: 1978807287 | 2020 | 206 pages | PDF | 3 MB
By analyzing how various media told stories about Jewish celebrities and incest, Unsettling illustrates how Jewish community protective politics impacted the representation of white male Jewish masculinity in the 1990s. Chapters on Woody Allen, Roseanne Barr, and Henry Roth demonstrate how media coverage of their respective incest denials (Allen), allegations (Barr), and confessions (Roth) intersect with a history of sexual antisemitism, while an introductory chapter on Jewish second-wave feminist criticism of Sigmund Freud considers how Freud became “white” in these discussions.
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