ABSTRACT
In this chapter the study results that were presented in the previous four chapters will be examined vis-à-vis the question of “new Jews” in 21st-century film. Specifically, this chapter provides a more nuanced discussion of the American Jewish stereotypes found in movies of the new millennium and discusses the implications of such findings on the racialization of American Jewish identity. Particular attention is paid to the interplay between social forces and individual agency in the portrayals of American Jewish identity onscreen, including such issues as American Jewish filmmakers’ highly disproportionate involvement in the production of these racialized portrayals, the numerical dominance and varying explicitness of certain stereotypes in relation to others, and the effects of a shifting and crisis-ridden global political economy on the cinematic representations of minorities. Also, the findings of this book's study will be compared and contrasted with several other works on 21st-century American Jewish identity on the big screen, particularly with regard to characters that have been discussed in this book.
