Performing Difference (eBook)

Jonathan Friedman is director of Holocaust and Genocide Studies and associate professor of history at West Chester University. He has worked as a historian at both the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. and the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation. He is the author of four books: most recently The Literary, Cultural, and Historical Significance of the 1937 Biblical Stage Play, The Eternal Road (2004), and Rainbow Jews: Gay and Jewish Identity in the Performing Arts (2007).

Chapter 1 Section I - Race and Ethnicity Chapter 2 1. Jonathan C. Friedman, A Conscience for Hollywood? The 'Societal Issue' Films of Twentieth Century Fox, 1947-1950 Chapter 3 2. Dalton Anthony Jones, Grounding Race: Powder and the Shifting Terrain of Whiteness Chapter 4 3. Paul Pfeiffer, Shylock: Shakespeare's Sympathetic 'Other' Chapter 5 4. Tia Malkin-Fontecchio, The 'New Marginality': Representations of the Favela in Recent Brazilian Cinema Chapter 6 5. Margarete Landwehr, Liminal Spaces in Fatih Akin's Gegen die Wand/ Head On: Orientalism vs. Globalization Chapter 7 6. Raz Yosef, Fantasies of Loss: Melancholia and Ethnicity in Israeli Cinema Chapter 8 7. Jun Xing, Cinematic Asian Representation in Hollywood Chapter 9 8. Bonnie Morris, Passing: A Reading on a Jewish Woman's Identity Chapter 10 Section II - Gender and Sexual Orientation Chapter 11 9. Melissa Ziobro, This Manifest Idignity: Hollywood's Portrayal of the Gender Integration of the Armed Forces in the World War II Era Chapter 12 10. John M. Clum, Batting for the Other Team: Masculinity, Homosexuality, and Sports in Contemporary Drama and Film Chapter 13 11. Geetha Ramanathan, Mestiza Feminisms and Julie Taymor's Frida Chapter 14 12. Jonathan C. Friedman, The Problematic Ethnic and Sexual Discourses of Eytan Fox's The Bubble Chapter 15 Section III - The Holocaust, War, and Genocide Chapter 16 13. Ilan Avisar, Time and Representation: Generic Transformations and Historicist Interpretations of Holocaust Films Chapter 17 14. John J. Michalczyk and Susan A. Michalczyk, The Bystander and the Other in Holocaust Films Chapter 18 15. Christopher Thomas, Fiend, Foe and Friend: The German Image in American World War II Films Chapter 19 16. Edward C. Hanes, Representations of Genocide in Recent Films Chapter 20 17. William L. Hewitt, Genocide and Redemption in the Modern Western