Sunday, November 26, 2023

'Antisemitism in the Gothic and Jewish Horror' with Dr Mary Going (YouTube)

Antisemitism in the Gothic and Jewish Horror with Dr Mary Going. A talk for Romancing the Gothic, 2023.

She talks about antisemitic tropes in Dracula, Nosferatu, and Paul Wegener's surviving golem film.

One observation of mine

A similarity (in my view) between Jewish and transgender identity: You feel stereotyped as someone who will do "the Jewish thing" or "the transgender thing," and you want to strike forth on your own path, but you may also be inclined to hide your identity in the process because you feel some threat or because you're imitating people who have felt that threat, and maybe that survival behavior is part of the identity."

video still quoting Sean Wainsteim, maker of Demon Box: 'As a Jewish filmmaker you don't want to just make Holocaust films. That's not a thing you want to just do. I generally avoid any type of Jewish content, and I don't know if that's because of the idea of like trying to hide your identity ot survive.'

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