Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation

Auteur(s) : Moss, Joshua L. (1973-....)  Voir les notices liées en tant qu'auteur

Titre(s) : Why Harry met Sally [Texte imprimé] : subversive Jewishness, Anglo-Christian power, and the rhetoric of modern love / Joshua Louis Moss

Édition : First edition

Publication : Austin, [Texas] : University of Texas press, copyright 2017

Description matérielle : x, 347 pages : ill. ; 23 cm

Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-332) and index
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 these pairings, Joshua Louis Moss argues, the unruly screen Jew is the privileged representative of progressivism, secular modernism, and the cosmopolitan sensibilities of the mass-media age. But his/her unruliness is nearly always contained through romantic union with the Anglo-Christian partner. This Jewish-Christian meta-narrative has recurred time and again as one of the most powerful and enduring, although unrecognized, mass-culture fantasies. Using the innovative framework of coupling theory, Why Harry Met Sally surveys three major waves of Jewish-Christian couplings in popular American literature, theater, film, and television. Moss explores how first-wave European and American creators in the early twentieth century used such couplings as an extension of modernist sensibilities and the American "melting pot." He then looks at how New Hollywood of the late 1960s revived these couplings as a sexually provocative response to the political conservatism and representational absences of postwar America. Finally, Moss identifies the third wave as emerging in television sitcoms, Broadway musicals, and "gross-out" film comedies to grapple with the impact of American economic globalism since the 1990s

Sujet(s) : Couples -- Au cinéma  Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet
Couples -- À la télévision  Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet
Judaïsme -- Relations -- Christianisme  Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet

Indice(s) Dewey :  791.436 543 (23e éd.) = Cinéma - Thèmes de l'amour et du mariage  Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet

Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781477312827. - ISBN 147731282X. - ISBN 9781477312834. - ISBN 1477312838. - ISBN 9781477312841 (erroné). - ISBN 9781477312858 (erroné)

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Table des matières : 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.