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Acting Jewish: Negotiating Ethnicity on the American Stage and Screen.

Publication: American Jewish History
Publication Date: 01-SEP-07 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Acting Jewish: Negotiating Ethnicity on the American Stage and Screen.(Book review)

Article Excerpt
Acting Jewish: Negotiating Ethnicity on the American Stage and Screen. By Henry Bial. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press; 2005. viii + 195 pp.

In Acting Jewish, Henry Bial offers an important entry into scholarly work on popular Jewish entertainment, attempting to understand the dynamic created among performer, text, and reader. Though drawing from work on Jewish identity and entertainment, cultural studies, ethnic studies, Jewish studies, and media studies, Bial situates his research within performance studies, which offers him a model of analysis for understanding these relationships as simultaneously "playful" and "meaningful" (141). Bial emphasizes the pleasure audiences feel at self-recognition when experiencing the doubly coded, "wink-wink" nature of shows like Seinfeld or the references to a shared Jewish-American past in films like Funny Girl, but describes these...

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