Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: PORTRAYING THE JEWISH AMERICAN EXPERIENCE IN FILM

Department: *Visual and Dramatic Arts*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Explore the experiences of 20th century American Jews as portrayed in film through various themes that have shaped American Jewish identity. Emphasis on cultural context, external perception, Jewish self-representation and self-understanding. Topics included assimilation, anti-Semitism, Holocaust, hybrid identity, family, humor, intermarriage. Counts toward the Jewish Studies minor. Cross-list: RELI 325.