Yiddish Cinema: The Drama of Troubled Communication (Suny Series, Horizons of Cinema)

✍ Scribed by Jonah Corne, Monika Vrečar

Publisher: State University of New York Press
Year: 2023
Tongue: English
Leaves: 363
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Jonah Corne is Associate Professor in the Department of English, Theatre, Film, and Media at the University of Manitoba. Monika Vrečar is an independent scholar who holds a PhD in Philosophy and Theory of Visual Culture from the University of Primorska, Slovenia.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
List of Illustrations
Introduction: “The structure of communication is the infrastructure of human reality”
1 Powers of Music: A Little Letter to Mother (1938)
The Gesture of Listening to Music
Authority and the “Passive” Father
Transformative Absence
Epistolarity and Mame-loshn
Musical Reconnection
An Almost Happy Ending
2 Discourse and Dialogue: The Living Orphan (1939)
Discourse and Dialogue
Discontents of the Stage Couple
Newspaper Boy, Messenger Boy
Communicative Revolutions
The Mother in Charge
3 The Mass Media Family: Kol Nidre (1939)
The Mass Media Family
Disruptions and Promises of Radio
The Scandal of the Speaking Body and the Text of Muteness
Returning to Tradition
4 The Battle of the Books: Tevye (1939)
The Battle of the Books
The Battle of the “Fathers”
Excommunication and the Family Organism
Sovereign Performatives and Insurrectionary Speech
Textual Homeland and the Consolations of Exile
5 Motherhood, Migration, and the Asylum: Where Is My Child? (1937)
Migration and Motherhood
Crisis of Disconnection
Performative Abuse
Return of the Repressed
Letter Carrier and Whistleblower
Lulling a Photograph
(Ex)Communication in the Asylum
Illicit Relationality
Rescue and Reconfiguration
6 “Silence which is communication”: Motel the Operator (1939)
“Silence which is communication” and Turning
Marx and the Talmud
Broken Strike
The Abandoned Mother and Phantasmatic Communication
Responsibility to the Other: Levinas and Buber
Makeshift Identity and Parental Rights
The Silent Sheliekh and the Two Fathers
7 Groundlessness I (The Nation against the Jew): The Wandering Jew (1933)
Groundlessness
Censorship, Art, and Jewishness
Antisemitism, Totalitarianism, and the Abandonment of Responsibility
Nazi Communication: Rallies and Radio
Unplugged: Nazi Exclusionary Measures and Book Burning
The Jewish Time Bias
8 Groundlessness II (Among the DPs): Long Is the Road (1948)
Displacement, Objectification, Cohabitation
Subjectifying Tactics
Dissolution of Ground
Leaping into the Abyss
Bureaucratic Apparatus in and beyond the Camps
Shelter in the Other
A Call to All to Find the One
Regrounding
9 Mediating the Mystical: The Dybbuk (1937)
Mediating the Mystical
Those Who Are to Hear and Those Who Are Not to Hear
Memory and Forgetting
Silence and Music
The Wind
Struggles of the Zaddik
Dialogue and Unio Mystica
Coda
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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