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Informationen zum Autor Hannah Schwadron is Assistant Professor in the School of Dance at Florida State University Klappentext The sexy Jewess moves boldly between neo-burlesque striptease, comedy television, ballet movies, and progressive porn. Bringing sexiness together with race, gender, and class, The Case of the Sexy Jewess looks at embodied joke-work that is most often, but not always meant to be funny. Zusammenfassung The sexy Jewess moves boldly between neo-burlesque striptease, comedy television, ballet movies, and progressive porn. Bringing sexiness together with race, gender, and class, The Case of the Sexy Jewess looks at embodied joke-work that is most often, but not always meant to be funny. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents Acknowledgements Introduction The Case of the Sexy Jewess Repetition with a Difference and the Joke Body Expressive Confessions of a "Face Like That" All in a Look The Corporeal Turn for New Jewish Studies Identity Acts and Impersonations Jewish Joke-Work and the Doubled Female Subject The Queer Play of Self-Display Methods and Materials Notes Chapter 1 Nice Girls Gone Blue: Neo-Burlesque Nostalgia and the Downwardly Mobile Rockette Fantasies and the Menorah Horah Nice Jewish Girls Gone Bad and Ordering Chinese On Christmas Eve "Polyester Feminism" and the Stakes of Self-Display Sexy Spirit and the Do-It-Yourself Scheme Conclusion Notes Chapter 2 Hello, Gorgeous and the Historical Lens: How Funny Girls Became Sexy Fanny Brice, Barbra Streisand, and the Joke of the Jewish Swan Sophie Tucker, Betty Boop, and the Bawdy Body Blacking Up Party Albums, Postwar Ambitions, and the Jewish American Princess Sexy Jews and Leggy Moves: Bunnies, Babes, and Mermaid Maneuvers Conclusion Notes Chapter 3 Comic Glory (and Guilt): The Appropriative License of Jewish Female Comedy Sandra Bernhard and the I/You Other Race, Sex, and the Sarah Silverman Effect Broad City's Bad Girls Getting Bi In-Between Conclusion Notes Chapter 4 Black Swan, White Nose: Jewish Horror and Ballet Birds By Any Other Name Synopsis and Setup: Thriller Ballet and Jewish Swans All Sexed Up Facing the Jewish Female Monster Jewish Swans, Queer Contexts Lesbian Sex and Swan Sin: Thrills Fit to Forget Swan Queen Kills Herself, Saves Ballet? The Funny Thing About Horror: Moving Across Genres Conclusion Notes Chapter 5 Punk Porn Princess Joanna Angel and the Rise of Jewess Raunch From the Porn Wars to Post-feminism Piggish Authority and Sexual Commodification At Home in Burning Angel and Joanna's Jewish Roots Blow Up Joanna and the Jewish Doppelgänger Heeb Magazine and the Jewish Cutting Edge The Game of Interracial Porn and Joanna's Phallic Check Mate Conclusion Notes Conclusion At the Edge and In Your Face Notes Bibliography Index ...
