Peak TV’s Unapologetic Jewish Woman - Exploring Jewish Female Representation in Contemporary Television Comedy

Peak TV's Unapologetic Jewish Woman: Exploring Jewish Female Representation in Contemporary Television Comedy analyzes the ways in which contemporary American television-with its unprecedented choice, diversity, and authenticity-is establishing a new version of the Jewish woman and a new take on American Jewish female identity that challenges the stereotypes of Jewish femininity proliferated on television since its inception. Using case studies of streaming, cable, and network comedy series from the past decade written and created by Jewish women, including Broad City, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, among others, this book illustrates how this new Jewish woman has been given voice and agency by the bevy of Jewish female showrunners interested in telling stories about Jewish women for wider audiences.

List of contents

Chapter 1: "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
Chapter 2: A Modern Jewish Big Mouth in 1950s New York: The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel as a Contemporary Re-imagining of the Midcentury Jewish Woman
Chapter 3: Precarious Broads, Difficult Girls, and Baby Grown-Ups: Defining the Unapologetic Jewess on Broad City and Difficult People
Chapter 4: The (New) Dysfunctional Jewish Family: Jewish Mothers and Jewish Family Life on Network, Cable, and Streaming Television

Product details

• Authors: Samantha Pickette
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.12.2022
• EAN: 9781793633156
• ISBN: 978-1-7936-3315-6
• Dimensions: 158 mm x 237 mm x 24 mm
• Weight: 549 g
• Series: Jewish Women in the Americas
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Judaism; Television, RELIGION / Judaism / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies, PERFORMING ARTS / Television / History & Criticism, Jewish Studies, Judaism, Relating to Jewish people & groups, Social groups: religious groups & communities