Unclean Lips : Obscenity, Jews, and American Culture / Josh Lambert.
Lambert, Josh, author.
2013
HQ471 .L225 2016
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Title Unclean Lips : Obscenity, Jews, and American Culture / Josh Lambert.
Author Lambert, Josh, author.
ISBN 9781479851584
DOI https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479876433.001.0001
Published New York, NY : New York University Press, [2013]
Copyright ©2013
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource
Other Standard Identifiers 10.18574/nyu/9781479876433.001.0001 doi
Call Number HQ471 .L225 2016
Dewey Decimal Classification 363.470973
Summary Winner of the 2014 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award presented by the Association for Jewish StudiesJews have played an integral role in the history of obscenity in America. For most of the 20th century, Jewish entrepreneurs and editors led the charge against obscenity laws. Jewish lawyers battled literary censorship even when their non-Jewish counterparts refused to do so, and they won court decisions in favor of texts including Ulysses, A Howl, Lady Chatterley's Lover, and Tropic of Cancer. Jewish literary critics have provided some of the most influential courtroom testimony on behalf of freedom of expression.The anti-Semitic stereotype of the lascivious Jew has made many historians hesitant to draw a direct link between Jewishness and obscenity. In Unclean Lips, Josh Lambert addresses the Jewishness of participants in obscenity controversies in the U.S. directly, exploring the transformative roles played by a host of neglected figures in the development of modern and postmodern American culture.The diversity of American Jewry means that there is no single explanation for Jews' interventions in this field. Rejecting generalizations, this bookoffers case studies that pair cultural histories with close readings of both contested texts and trial transcripts to reveal the ways in which specific engagements with obscenity mattered to particular American Jews at discrete historical moments.Reading American culture from Theodore Dreiser and Henry Miller to Curb Your Enthusiasm and FCC v. Fox, Unclean Lips analyzes the variable historical and cultural factors that account for the central role Jews have played in the struggles over obscenity and censorship in the modern United States.
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Series Goldstein-Goren Series in American Jewish History ; 10
In New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
Available in Other Form print 9781479876433
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Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Sexual Anti-Semitism and Pornotopia
2. The Prestige of Dirty Words and Pictures
3. Otherfuckers and Motherfuckers
4. Seductive Modesty
Conclusion
Notes
Index
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