Reel Kabbalah

Reel 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  (1998), Ushpizin  (2004), Bee Season  (2005), The Secrets  (2007), and A Serious Man  (2009) -- and it conside