• Hollywood's chosen people : the Jewish experience in American cinema
  • Record Type: Electronic resources : monographic
    Title Information: the Jewish experience in American cinema
    Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: Tirosh-SamuelsonHava, 1950-
    Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: PomeranceMurray, 1946-
    Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: BernardiDaniel, 1964-
    Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: Project Muse
    Place of Publication: Wayne State University Press
    Published: Detroit;
    Year of Publication: 2012
    Description: 1 online resource (224 p.).
    Series: Contemporary approaches to film and media series
    Subject: Jews in the motion picture industry - United States -
    Subject: Jews in motion pictures -
    Online resource: http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780814338070/
    Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
    ISBN: 9780814338070electronic bk.
    ISBN: 9780814334829pbk.
    Content Note: Introduction: the Hollywood question / Hava Tirosh-Samuelson, DanielBernardi, and Murray Pomerance -- A forgotten masterpiece: Edward Sloman's His people / Lester D. Friedman -- Jewish immigrant directors and their impact on Hollywood / Catherine Portuges -- "A rotten bunch of vile people with no respect for anything beyond the making of money": Joseph Breen, The Hollywood Production Code, and institutionalized anti-Semitism in Hollywood / Wheeler Winston Dixon -- Stardom, intermarriage, and consumption in the 1950s: the Debbie-Eddie-Liz scandal / Sumiko Higashi -- Hats off to George Cukor! / William Rothman -- Notes on Sontag and "Jewish moral seriousness" in American movies / Sarah Kozloff -- The good German? Oskar Schindler and the movies, 1951-1993 / Peter Kramer-- Representing atrocity: September 11 through the Holocaust lens / David Sterritt -- David Mamet's Homicide: in or out? / Lucy Fischer -- Boy-man schlemiels and super-nebishes: Adam Sandler and Ben Stiller / VincentBrook -- Who was Buddy Love?: screen performance and Jewish experience / Murray Pomerance -- Assimilating Streisand: when too much is notenough / Vivian Sobchack
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