文档介绍：Cleveland State ******@CSUArt Department Faculty PublicationsArt DepartmentSummer 2007The Fockerized Jew?: Questioning Jewishness asCool in American Popular EntertainmentSamantha BaskindCleveland State University, S.******@ this and additional works at: of theAmerican Popular mons, and theJewish monsPublisher's Statement? 2007 Purdue University PressThis Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Art Department at ******@CSU. It has been accepted for inclusion in ArtDepartment Faculty Publications by an authorized administrator of ******@CSU. For more information, please contactlibrary.******@ CitationBaskind, Samantha. "The Fockerized Jew?: Questioning Jewishness as Cool in American Popular Entertainment." Shofar: AnInterdisciplinary Journal Of Jewish Studies 25. 4 (Summer 2007): 3-17. OhioLINK Electronic Journal Center. Fockerized Jew??3Vol. 25, No. 4?2007The Fockerized Jew?: Questioning Jewishness as Cool in American Popular EntertainmentSamantha BaskindCleveland State UniversityThis essay examines the recent upsurge in overt Jewish identity in American popular culture, using the ?lm Meet the Parents (2000) and its sequel Meet the Fockers (2004) as a case study to demonstrate how the Jewish Jew is no longer avoided and when portrayed does not fall victim to stereotyping. While looking at these two ?lms together, I describe a broader evolution in media from the de-ethnicized Jew, and for that matter the de-ethnicized Jewish actor, to performers ?aunting (and thereby celebrating) Jewishness in a Christian-centric society that has found acceptance of the Other. The paper also questions what about Jewish-ness is cool and describes how viewer subjectivities in?uence the perception of the Fockers ( Jay Roach, 2004), the sequel to the wildly essful ?lm Meet the Parents ( Jay Roac