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 |