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Peak TV's unapologetic Jewish woman

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"This book analyzes how contemporary representations of Jewish women on television challenge stereotypes of Jewish femininity, using a variety of series created by Jewish women to explore how this self-representation and evolving industry practices have come together to establish new, more diverse paradigms of Jewish femininity"-- Provided by publisher.

Title Peak TV's unapologetic Jewish woman : exploring Jewish female representation in contemporary television comedy / Samantha Pickette.
Related place Lanham (Md.)-place of publication
Publisher Lanham : Lexington Books
Creation Date [2023]
Notes Includes bibliographical references and index.
Content Introduction: "Allow Me to Introduce Myself, I'm Another Person in the Room": Contextualizing the Role of the Jewish Woman in Classic Television Comedy -- "The Situation's a Lot More Nuanced Than That": Jewish Mothers, JAPs, and the Correlation between Mental Illness and Jewish Female "Craziness" in Crazy Ex-Girlfriend -- A Modern Jewish Big Mouth in 1950s New York: The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel as a Contemporary Reimagining of the Midcentury Jewish Woman -- Precarious Broads, Difficult Girls, and Baby Grown-Ups: Defining the Unapologetic Jewess on Broad City and Difficult People -- The (New) Dysfunctional Jewish Family: Jewish Mothers and Jewish Family Life on Network, Cable, and Streaming Television -- Where Do We Go from Here?: Looking Ahead towards New Possibilities for Jewish Female Representation in Television Comedy
Series Jewish women in the Americas
Extent ix, 233 pages
24 cm.
Language English
Copyright Date ©2023
National Library system number 997012440875505171

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