RELST-225 Mass Media and the Jewish Experience
Jews’ relationship to mass media has long been stereotyped and misunderstood. This course raises questions about race, ethnicity, and modern media by exploring the intersecting developments in mass media – including publishing, photography, film, and television – with Jewish history in Europe and the United States. How and why did media industries offer Jews social mobility? How do different media enable assimilation, passing, or stereotyping? How and when have Jews used visual media to assert their identity, including by aligning with other minorities and outsiders? Topics include print culture in Eastern Europe; the Yiddish avant-garde; Jewish Hollywood; Zionist aesthetics; photojournalism and the Holocaust; and Jewish photographers in the Civil Rights Movement.
Seminar (12)
Credits
1.0
Cross Listed Courses
ARTH-225,
CNMS-225