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Summary:

"Transparent made history as the first television show to feature a transgender character in the main role, as the first streaming series to win the Golden Globe for Best Television Series, and as, in the words of journalist Debra Nussbaum Coen, "the Jewiest show ever." No television show in history has depicted the lives of American Jews with as much attention to Jewish rituals, quirks, or culture. And no series has portrayed issues of gender and sexuality alongside Judaism with such nuance and depth, making Transparent a landmark series in the history of television. Blessings Beyond The Binary: Transparent and the Queer Jewish Family brings together leading scholars to analyze and offer commentary on what scholar Josh Lambert calls, "the most important work of Jewish culture of the century so far". The book explores the show's depiction of Jewish life, religion, and history, as well as Transparent's scandals, criticisms, and how it fits and diverges from today's transgender and queer politics. The first book to focus on Transparent, Blessings Beyond the Binary offers a rich analysis of the groundbreaking series and its connections to contemporary queer, trans, and Jewish life"-- [Provided by publisher]

Table of Contents:

• Rebooting Jewish television / Josh Lambert
• "Happy yom kippur" : televising and translating atonement / Nora Rubel
• Melancholy and joy : Jewish nomadism and Transparent / Ranen Omer-Sherman
• The historiography of Transparent / Martin Shuster
• Dancing out the torah : ritual, bodies, and transitions in Transparent / Jodi Eichler-Levine
• From oy to hineni : language and transition in Transparent / Sarah Bunin Benor
• Pfefferman's complaint : Transparent and the tenacity of Jewish familial stereotypes / Jarrod Tanny
• The gentile, the demonic, and collapsing binaries in Transparent / Shaul Magid
• Nostalgia, queer time, and the ethnic in Transparent / Jennifer Glaser
• Don't all have your family : the critique of religion in Transparent / Kathryn Lofton
• From beautiful rabbi to queer kohenet : gender and Judaism in and beyond Transparent / Shari Rabin
• Queer temporality in trans times : connection and belonging in Transparent's second season / Joshua Falek
• Queering the Holocaust : intersecting Jewish and transgender identities in Transparent / Kerstin Steitz
• Making Jewishness Transparent and Transparent Jew-ish / Marilyn Reizbaum
• Run from your parent's house : transfeminism and Abraham's blessing / Slava Greenberg
• La-la-lech-lecha : Transparent's musical movie finale / Warren Hoffman.

Contributors:

Rubel, Nora L., 1974- , editor

Krutzsch, Brett, 1979- , editor

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Subjects:

Transparent (Television program)

Jews on television

Sexual minorities on television

Families on television

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Call Numbers:

PN1992.77.T767 B54 2024eb

ISBNs:

9781978838826 (electronic bk.)
1978838824 (electronic bk.)
9781978838802 [Invalid]
1978838808 [Invalid]
9781978838796 [Invalid]
1978838794 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

1451798177

Other Control Numbers:

EBC31075999 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp20967645