Jewish Film & New Media Volume 1, Number 1 (Spring 2013)

Jewish Film & New Media provides an outlet for research into any aspect of Jewish film, television, and new media and is unique in its interdisciplinary nature, exploring the rich and diverse cultural heritage across the globe. The journal is distinctive in bringing together a range of cinemas, televisions, films, programs, and other digital material in one volume and in its positioning of the discussions within a range of contexts—the cultural, historical, textual, and many others.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Nathan Abrams and Nir Cohen

Articles

Sidney Lumet, Political Jew
Vincent Brook

Love and Surveillance: Politicized Romance in Peter Kosminsky's The Promise
Nir Cohen

Making a New Holy Community: God's Neighbors and the Ascendancy of a New Religious Hegemony in Israel
Yaron Peleg

Report

Rescued from Oblivion: Michael Klinger, Jewish Independent Producer
Andrew Spicer

Reviews

New Jews?: Race and American Jewish Identity in 21st-Century Film, by David L. Reznik
Elyce Rae Helford

Hollywood's Chosen People: The Jewish Experience in American Cinema, edited by Daniel Bernardi, Murray Pomerance, and Hava Tirosh-Samuelson
Lawrence Baron

Destination London: German-Speaking Émigrés and British Cinema, 1925–1950, edited by Tim Bergfelder and Christian Cargnelli, and The Continental Connection: German-Speaking Émigrés and British Cinema, 1927–45, by Tobias Hochscherf
Andrew Spicer

The New Jew in Film: Exploring Jewishness and Judaism in Contemporary Cinema, by Nathan Abrams
Carolina Rocha