Macalester College DigitalCommons@Macalester College Media and Cultural Studies Honors Projects Media and Cultural Studies 5-1-2006 Popular Representations of Jewish Identity on Primetime Television: The aC se of The .OC. Tamara Olson Macalester College,
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[email protected]. Popular Representations of Jewish Identity on Primetime Television: The Case of The O.C. Tamara Jill Olson Senior Honors Thesis Department: Humanities and Media and Cultural Studies Advisor: Leola Johnson Readers: Vincent Doyle and J. Andrew Overman Date Submitted: May 1, 2006 Table of Contents Introduction 3 Chapter 1: A History of Jewish Identity and Representations in Mass Media 13 Chapter 2: Jews on Television 42 Chapter 3: Methods: Reading The O.C. as a Cultural Text 60 Chapter 4: Television and the Construction of a White, Post-Jewish Identity: A Close Reading of The O.C. 69 Conclusion: Exploring the Postmodern, Secular Jewish Identity as a Brand of Whiteness 104 Works Cited 109 2 Introduction The O.C.