{"product_id":"yiddish-cinema-the-drama-of-troubled-communication-paperback","title":"Yiddish Cinema: The Drama of Troubled Communication - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJonah Corne\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eMonika Vrečar\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this book, Jonah Corne and Monika Vrečar offer a conceptually innovative reexamination of Yiddish cinema, a crucial yet little-known diasporic phenomenon that enjoyed its \"golden age\" in the mid- to late 1930s. Yiddish cinema, they argue, exhibits a distinctive fascination with media forms, technologies, and institutions, and with relationality writ large. What stands behind this communication obsession, as it might be understood, is the films' engagement both with Judaic ideals and with a series of Jewish sociohistorical predicaments of \u003ci\u003etroubled communication\u003c\/i\u003e (immigration, displacement, the breakdown of tradition, and so on) that the films seek to reflect. Accordingly, the authors create a resonant conversation between Yiddish cinema, populated by an endless procession of disconnected characters ardently striving to rejoin the world of communication, and the brilliant yet underappreciated ideas of pioneering Czech-Jewish media theorist Vil?m Flusser (1920-1991), who escaped Nazi persecution and built the first part of his intellectual career in Brazil. Indeed, the authors claim that the popular art of Yiddish cinema articulates in dramatic terms a version of the central Flusserian hypothesis that \"the structure of communication is the infrastructure of human reality\" and, by doing so, embodies a remarkable Jewish media theory \"from below.\" Films discussed include \u003ci\u003eThe Wandering Jew\u003c\/i\u003e (1933), \u003ci\u003e The Dybbuk\u003c\/i\u003e (1937), \u003ci\u003eWhere is My Child?\u003c\/i\u003e (1937), \u003ci\u003eA Little Letter to Mother\u003c\/i\u003e (1938), \u003ci\u003eKol Nidre\u003c\/i\u003e (1939), \u003ci\u003eMotel the Operator\u003c\/i\u003e (1939), \u003ci\u003eTevye\u003c\/i\u003e (1939), \u003ci\u003eThe Living Orphan\u003c\/i\u003e (1939), and \u003ci\u003eLong Is the Road\u003c\/i\u003e (1948).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 362\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.81 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 02, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51774760517920,"sku":"9781438494203","price":63.18,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/9a5174ab00778ec8fa7e274734994408.webp?v=1780454498","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/yiddish-cinema-the-drama-of-troubled-communication-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}