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- Title
SEMI-AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL JEWISH FILMS IN THE AMERICAS: A COMPARATIVE APPROACH.
- Authors
GLICKMAN, NORA
- Abstract
This essay examines seven semi-autobiographical films by Jewish directors and screenwriters from English-, Spanish-, and Portuguese-speaking countries in the Americas. The films depict scenes spanning from the early nineteen twenties to the nineteen eighties, and encompass three generations of Jewish immigrants and their descendants. Although the features reflect different time periods and cultural shifts in their respective countries (U.S., Canada, Mexico, Argentina, and Brazil), they are a multicultural contribution of the immigrant experience. All the films discussed address inter-generational issues and specifically focus on a particular period of children's lives as they come into contact with a grandparent figure. I suggest that the relationships between the children and their elders, along with the influence of their surrounding environments, play a crucial role in the future development of the youngsters. While the private trajectories of the Jewish characters depicted show similarities in their progressive assimilation and secularization, the films analyzed here observe the contrast between characters living in stable democratic countries like Canada and the U.S., and those in autocratic Latin American countries, in this case, Brazil.
- Subjects
ARGENTINA; JEWS in motion pictures; SCREENWRITERS; IMMIGRANTS; MOTION pictures; INTERGENERATIONAL relations
- Publication
Post Script, 2019, Vol 38, Issue 2/3, p109
- ISSN
0277-9897
- Publication type
Article