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Movies and Midrash

Name: Movies and Midrash
Author: Wendy I. Zierler

Popular Film and Jewish Religious Conversation

Wendy I. Zierler

328 pages
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eBook - ePub

Movies and Midrash

Popular Film and Jewish Religious Conversation

Wendy I. Zierler

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Finalist for the 2017 National Jewish Book Award in Modern Jewish Thought and Experience presented by the Jewish Book Council Movies and Midrash uses cinema as a springboard to discuss central Jewish texts and matters of belief. A number of books have drawn on films to explicate Christian theology and belief, but Wendy I. Zierler is the first to do so from a Jewish perspective, exploring what Jewish tradition, text, and theology have to say about the lessons and themes arising from influential and compelling films. The book uses the method of "inverted midrash": while classical rabbinical midrash begins with exegesis of a verse and then introduces a mashal (parable) as a means of further explication, Zierler turns that process around, beginning with the culturally familiar cinematic parable and then analyzing related Jewish texts. Each chapter connects a secular film to a different central theme in classical Jewish sources or modern Jewish thought. Films covered include The Truman Show (truth), Memento (memory), Crimes and Misdemeanors (sin), Magnolia (confession and redemption), The Descendants (birthright), Forrest Gump (cleverness and simplicity), and The Hunger Games (creation of humanity in God's image), among others.

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Publisher

SUNY Press

Year

2017

ISBN

9781438466163

Topic

Media & Performing Arts

Subtopic

Film History & Criticism

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Contents
List of Illustrations
Foreword by Rabbi Eugene B. Borowitz
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1 The Truman Show: Truth
Chapter 2 Magnolia: Confession and Redemption
Chapter 3 The Descendants: Birthright: Consent versus Descent
Chapter 4 On Memento: Remaking Memory from the Outside In
Chapter 5 Crimes, Misdemeanors, and Sin
Chapter 6 Forrest Gump: Cleverness and Simplicity
Chapter 7 The King’s Speech: Speaking God’s Word
Chapter 8 Stranger than Fiction: God as Author
Chapter 9 A Serious Man: Parables of Jewishness
Chapter 10 Exam: Tests, Trials, and Attachments
Chapter 11 The Hunger Games: In God’s Image
Conclusion Moonrise Kingdom: And the Youth Shall See Visions
Appendix I On the Design of “Reel Theology,” from e-mail archives
Appendix II More Movies and Midrash: Additional Film Resources
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Back Cover