| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 194 pages) : illustrations. |
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text file |
| Series |
Latinoamericana
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Latinoamericana (Toronto, Ont.)
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
"Revolutionary Visions examines recent cinematic depictions of Jewish involvement in 1960s and 1970s revolutionary movements in Latin America. In order to explore the topic, the book bridges critical theory on religion, politics, and hegemony from regional Latin American, national, and global perspectives. Placing these theories in dialogue with recent films, the author asks the following questions: How did revolutionary commitment change Jewish community and families in twentieth-century Latin America? How did Jews contribute to revolutionary causes and what is the place of Jews in the legacies of revolutionary movements? How is film used to project self-representations of Jewish communities in the national project for a mainstream audience? Jewish involvement in revolutionary movements is rife with contradictions. On the one hand, it was a natural progression of patterns of political participation, based on the ideological affinities shared between Socialist movements and Marxist revolutionary politics. On the other hand, involvement in revolutionary politics would also upset the status quo of Jewish communities due to the extreme nature of revolutionary practices (e.g. guerrilla warfare), revolutionary groups' alignment with Palestine, and the assimilation into non-Jewish culture that revolutionary involvement often entailed. These contradictions between Jewish self-identification and revolutionary activity continue to confound cultural understandings of the points of contact between identities and political affinities. In this way, Revolutionary Visions contributes to timely debates within cultural studies surrounding identities and politics."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Contents |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: "A Place in the Economy of Being": Revolutionary Visions -- 1 Saintly Politics: Christianity, Revolution, and Jews -- 2 Here We Are to Build a Nation: Jewish Immigrants to Early Twentieth-Century Latin America -- 3 Poner el cuerpo femenino judÃo: Jewish Women's Bodies and Revolutionary Movements -- 4 Lost Embraces: Jewish Parent-Child Relationships and 1970s Politics -- Epilogue: What Sort of Affinity? Conclusions and Areas for Future Study -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Motion pictures -- Latin America -- History.
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Motion pictures. |
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Latin America. |
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History. |
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Jews in motion pictures.
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Jews in motion pictures. |
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Jews -- Latin America -- History -- 20th century.
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Jews. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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Revolutions -- Latin America -- History -- 20th century.
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Revolutions. |
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Latin America -- History -- 20th century.
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PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism. |
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Pridgeon, Stephanie, 1986- Revolutionary vision. Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, 2021 148750814X 9781487508142 (OCoLC)1146553870 |
| ISBN |
9781487537654 (EPUB) |
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1487537654 (EPUB) |
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1487537646 (PDF) |
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9781487537647 (electronic book) |
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