Reel Kabbalah by Brian Ogren - 9781978840249

Reel KabbalahJewish Mysticism and Neo-Hasidism in Contemporary Cinema\nAuthor(s): Brian Ogren\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Rutgers University Press, United States\nImprint: Rutgers University Press\nISBN-13: 9781978840249, 978-1978840249\nSynopsis\nReel Kabbalah:Jewish Mysticism and Neo-Hasidism in Contemporary Cinema?studies the ways in which fictional film in the first decade of the twenty-first century represents the esoteric Jewish speculative traditions known as Kabbalah and Hasidism. It examines the textual and conceptual traditions behind five important cinematic representations -- Pi[tel], Ushpizin[tel], Bee Season[tel], The Secrets[tel], and A Serious Man[tel] -- and it considers how film both stands in continuity with those traditions and modifies them in the New Age vein of what is known as neo-Kabbalah and neo-Hasidism. Brian Ogren transforms our understanding of reception history by focusing on how cinema has altered perceptions of Jewish mysticism. In showing how the .