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This book exposes and traces a previously unrecognized performance tradition of extraordinary Jewish women in the Diaspora, from Rachel and Sarah Bernhardt in Nineteenth Century France to Roseanne and Sandra Bernhard in late Twentieth Century America.
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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La Belle Juive
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Spectacular American Bodies
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Passing as “Real”
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'Mock's book, is an ambitious 'cornucopia' of ideas and challenges to received wisdom on Jewishness, gender, sexuality, identity, performance, comedy, celebrity culture, and Freud. It reinvigorates the study of gender and performance, of race and culture, of historiographic practice in performance through the prism of the work of a wide range of Jewish women performers from stage and screen actors to stand up comics. In tracing a history, Jewishness, the female and performance is its subject, but its value and originality also lies in the book's resonance as a wider cultural and intellectual study.' - Viv Gardner, Professor of Theatre Studies at the University of Manchester
About the author
ROBERTA MOCK is Senior Lecturer and Associate Dean of Faculty of Arts at the University of Plymouth, UK.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Jewish Women on Stage, Film, and Television
Authors: Roberta Mock
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-06713-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2007
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-7989-6Published: 25 September 2007
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-06713-5Published: 27 September 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 227
Topics: Performing Arts, Theatre History, Literature, general, Gender Studies, Screen Studies, Theatre and Performance Studies