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Record Nr.

UNINA9910826092303321

Titolo

Hollywood's chosen people [[electronic resource] ] : the Jewish experience in American cinema / / edited by Daniel Bernardi, Murray Pomerance, and Hava Tirosh-Samuelson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Detroit, : Wayne State University Press, c2013

ISBN

0-8143-3807-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (280 p.)

Collana

Contemporary approaches to film and media series

Altri autori (Persone)

BernardiDaniel <1964->

PomeranceMurray <1946->

Tirosh-SamuelsonHava <1950->

Disciplina

791.43/652924

Soggetti

Jews in motion pictures

Jews in the motion picture industry - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-244) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: the Hollywood question / Hava Tirosh-Samuelson, Daniel Bernardi, 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 1950's: 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 / Vincent Brook -- Who was Buddy Love?: screen performance and Jewish experience / Murray Pomerance -- Assimilating Streisand: when too much is not enough / Vivian Sobchack.