{"product_id":"reel-kabbalah-jewish-mysticism-and-neo-hasidism-in-contemporary-cinema-9781978840249","title":"Reel Kabbalah: Jewish Mysticism and Neo-Hasidism in Contemporary Cinema","description":"\u003ci\u003eReel Kabbalah: \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eJewish Mysticism and Neo-Hasidism in Contemporary Cinema​ \u003c\/i\u003estudies 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 -- \u003ci\u003ePi \u003c\/i\u003e(1998), \u003ci\u003eUshpizin \u003c\/i\u003e(2004), \u003ci\u003eBee Season \u003c\/i\u003e(2005), \u003ci\u003eThe Secrets \u003c\/i\u003e(2007), and \u003ci\u003eA Serious Man \u003c\/i\u003e(2009) -- 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 Jewish speculative traditions of Kabbalah and Hasidism have been able to affect mass-consumed cinematic portrayals of ultimate Truth, this book sheds light on the New Age, pop-cultural dialectic of the particular within the universal and of the universal within the particular.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBRIAN OGREN \u003c\/b\u003eis the Anna Smith Fine Professor of Judaic Studies and the chair of the Religion Department at Rice University in Houston, Texas. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eKabbalah and the Founding of America\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Beginning of the World in Renaissance Jewish Thought\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eRenaissance and Rebirth.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50929042718994,"sku":"9781978840249","price":34.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ff4476fa-c707-4fe2-9e8b-5bc937fd1160.jpg?v=1739029496","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/reel-kabbalah-jewish-mysticism-and-neo-hasidism-in-contemporary-cinema-9781978840249","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}