Jewish Latin American Filmography

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction. Evolving Images: Jewish Latin American Cinema 1
4. Part I. Alternative Identities
5. 1. Out of the Shadows: María Victoria Menis’s Camera Obscura 11
6. 2. Intercultural Dilemmas: Performing Jewish Identities in Contemporary Mexican Cinema 24
7. 3. Incidental Jewishness in the Films of Fabián Bielinsky 36
8. Part II. Memory and Violence
9. 4. My German Friend and the Jewish Argentine/German “Mnemo-Historic“ Context 49
10. 5. Dispersed Friendships: Jeanine Meerapfel’s The Girlfriend 62
11. 6. Revisiting the AMIA Bombing in Marcos Carnevale’s Anita 73
12. Part III. New Themes
13. 7. The Year My Parents Went on Vacation: A Jewish Journey in the Land of Soccer 91
14. 8. Coming of Age in Two Films from Argentina and Uruguay 103
15. 9. Waiting for the Messiah: The Super 8mm Films of Alberto Salomón 117
16. Part IV. Diasporas and Displacements
17. 10. Geographic Isolation and Jewish Religious Revival in Two Contemporary Latin American Documentaries 133
18. 11. Negotiating Jewish and Palestinian Identities in Latin American Cinema 148
19. 12. From a Dream to Reality: Representations of Israel in Contemporary Jewish Latin American Film 164
20. 13. On Becoming a Movie 178
21. Part V. Comparative Perspectives: North and South American Cinema
22. 14. Jewish Urban Space in the Films of Daniel Burman and Woody Allen 187
23. 15. Interfaith Relations between Jews and Gentiles in Argentine and US Cinema 204
24. Afterword. Film Studies, Jewish Studies, Latin American Studies 225
25. Jewish Latin American Filmography 235
26. Contributors 241
27. Index 245