Peak TV’s Unapologetic Jewish Woman

Exploring Jewish Female Representation in Contemporary Television Comedy

Samantha Pickette (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

244 Seiten

2022
Lexington Books (Verlag)
9781793633156 (ISBN)

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This book analyzes how contemporary representations of Jewish women on television challenge stereotypes of Jewish femininity, using a variety of series created by Jewish women to explore how this self-representation and evolving industry practices have come together to establish new, more diverse paradigms of Jewish femininity.

Peak TV’s Unapologetic Jewish Woman: Exploring Jewish Female Representation in Contemporary Television Comedy analyzes the ways in which contemporary American television—with its unprecedented choice, diversity, and authenticity—is establishing a new version of the Jewish woman and a new take on American Jewish female identity that challenges the stereotypes of Jewish femininity proliferated on television since its inception. Using case studies of streaming, cable, and network comedy series from the past decade written and created by Jewish women, including Broad City, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, among others, this book illustrates how this new Jewish woman has been given voice and agency by the bevy of Jewish female showrunners interested in telling stories about Jewish women for wider audiences.

Samantha Pickette is assistant professor of Instruction in Jewish Studies and the assistant director of the Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.

Chapter 1: “The situation’s a lot more nuanced than that”: Jewish Mothers, JAPs, and the Correlation between Mental Illness and Jewish Female “Craziness” in Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
Chapter 2: A Modern Jewish Big Mouth in 1950s New York: The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel as a Contemporary Re-imagining of the Midcentury Jewish Woman
Chapter 3: Precarious Broads, Difficult Girls, and Baby Grown-Ups: Defining the Unapologetic Jewess on Broad City and Difficult People
Chapter 4: The (New) Dysfunctional Jewish Family: Jewish Mothers and Jewish Family Life on Network, Cable, and Streaming Television

Erscheinungsdatum	25.11.2022
Reihe/Serie	Jewish Women in the Americas
Sprache	englisch
Maße	158 x 237 mm
Gewicht	549 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-13	9781793633156 / 9781793633156
Zustand	Neuware