Evolving Images

Jewish Latin American Cinema

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Edited by Nora Glickman and Ariana Huberman

Type: Studies
Subject: Countries > Latin America
Keywords: Jewishness, Latin America
Publishing date: 2018
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Collection: Exploring Jewish Arts and Culture
Language: English

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Paperback • 264 pages
6 x 9 inches (15 x 23 cm)

ISBN

978-1-4773-1471-5

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Jews have always played an important role in the generation of culture in Latin America, despite their relatively small numbers in the overall population. In the early days of cinema, they served as directors, producers, screenwriters, composers, and broadcasters. As Latin American societies became more religiously open in the later twentieth century, Jewish characters and themes began appearing in Latin American films and eventually achieved full inclusion. Landmark films by Jewish directors in Argentina, Mexico, and Brazil, which are home to the largest and most influential Jewish communities in Latin America, have enjoyed critical and popular acclaim.

Evolving Images is the first volume devoted to Jewish Latin American cinema, with fifteen critical essays by leading scholars from Latin America, the United States, Europe, and Israel. The contributors address transnational and transcultural issues of Jewish life in Latin America, such as assimilation, integration, identity, and other aspects of life in the Diaspora. Their discussions of films with Jewish themes and characters show the rich diversity of Jewish cultures in Latin America, as well as how Jews, both real and fictional, interact among themselves and with other groups, raising the question of how much their ethnicity may be adulterated when adopting a combined identity as Jewish and Latin American. The book closes with a groundbreaking section on the affinities between Jewish themes in Hollywood and Latin American films, as well as a comprehensive filmography.

Press Reviews:
[A] superb collection of essays…All too often we find a statement such as 'this is a 'must book' for all those interested in…' In considering Evolving Images it is warranted, for it points to an equally evolving academic enterprise within Latin American-Jewish studies. Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas

A welcome addition to the English-language literature on Jewish themes in Latin American cinema...highly readable...Glickman and Huberman should be congratulated for putting together a fine collection of essays on the inadequately studied topic of Jewish presence in Latin American cinema. Jewish Film and New Media

The editors are to be commended for creating a structure that gives insight into specific aspects of Jewish lives and how these are visually depicted in Latin American countries...Evolving Images is essential reading for anyone seeking to gain insight into Jewish filmmaking in Latin American countries. Those studying or wishing to learn more about how Jewish motives and themes are treated in Latin American film and cinema will find this edited anthology highly informative and engaging. Everyone interested in the depiction of religion, heritage and/or cultural identities on film might also be interested in the collection. Popular Culture Studies Journal

This book is a significant and useful contribution to the prospering field of Latin American Jewish studies. There is no other competing work available on this subject, and thus this book is very much a grounding text for the field. I recommend it enthusiastically, and I am confident that it will be enormously influential. David William Foster, Arizona State University, author of many works Latin American and Latina/o cinema, including Queer Issues in Contemporary Latin American Cinema

This book creates a new field of research. The essays demonstrate that Jewish Latin American film, because of its continuity and scope, is itself a genre and not a spinoff from Latin American film in general. Stephen A. Sadow, Northeastern University, author or editor of many works on Jews and Latin America, including King David’s Harp: Autobiographical Essays by Jewish Latin American Writers

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