LEADER 03795nam 2200445 450 001 9910495193003321 005 20230629220756.0 010 $a3-030-76031-6 035 $a(CKB)4100000011996766 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6698609 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6698609 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011996766 100 $a20220427d2021 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aGenerations of Jewish directors and the struggle for America's soul $eWyler, Lumet, and Spielberg /$fSam B. Girgus 210 1$aCham, Switzerland :$cPalgrave Macmillan,$d[2021] 210 4$d©2021 215 $a1 online resource (278 pages) 225 1 $aRenewing the American Narrative,$x2524-8340 311 $a3-030-76030-8 327 $aIntro -- Acknowledgments -- Praise for Generations of Jewish Directors and the Struggle for America's Soul -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Jewish Directors and the "New Covenant"-Wyler, Lumet, and Spielberg -- The New Covenant, the American Jeremiad, and the American Soul -- Jewish Modernism and the American Story: A Shared "Mission" to the World -- Levinas, Ethical Transcendence, and the New Covenant -- William Wyler -- Sidney Lumet -- Steven Spielberg -- The New Covenant Today: David Brooks -- Part I: William Wyler's America -- Chapter 2: Bogart to Bogart: A Changing America from Dead End to The Desperate Hours -- Escape from the Past: Prejudice, Persecution, and Pogroms -- Wyler's Two Bogarts: American Gangsters -- Location Location -- Dead End and The Bridge -- "Baby Face" and Big Brother: The American Family in Crisis -- Chapter 3: Wyler: Surveying the Changing American Scene -- The War Years: Fighting for Liberal Democracy -- Love, Gender, and Sexuality -- Ben-Hur in the Time of Trump: A Brief Note -- The Liberal Challenge: African-Americans and the American Soul -- Part II: Sidney Lumet: Conscience and Democracy -- Chapter 4: Jew Grit: The New York Frontier and the Making of a Moralist -- The Lower East Side -- Conscience of the City: Serpico -- Martyrdom -- Hippie Cop of the Counter Culture -- Chapter 5: Filming "The Crisis of American Civic Liberalism" -- The Virulence of Mediated Madness: Network -- Daniel I: A New York Epic from the Lower East Side to the Bronx -- Daniel 2: The Existential and Ethical Imperative: Love and Death in America -- Part III: Steven Spielberg: Reform, Redemption, and Films of American Renewal -- Chapter 6: Spielberg, America's Soul, and the New Covenant -- Seeker: The Journey of Steven Spielberg -- Schindler's List I: The Holocaust and Democracy at Home. 327 $aSchindler's List II: The Face of Redemption: A Moral and Ethical Awakening -- Chapter 7: American Renewal and Democracy: Battling Slavery, Racism, and Fascism -- Amistad and Lincoln -- Saving Private Ryan -- Coda: The Post -- Chapter 8: Epilogue: The Jeremiad, the Myth of America, and the New Covenant -- Rebuilding the City on a Hill -- The Ethical and Existential Imperative -- Index. 410 0$aRenewing the American narrative. 606 $aJewish motion picture producers and directors$zUnited States 606 $aMotion pictures$xMoral and ethical aspects$zUnited States 615 0$aJewish motion picture producers and directors 615 0$aMotion pictures$xMoral and ethical aspects 676 $a791.430233092273 700 $aGirgus$b Sam B.$f1941-$0700141 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910495193003321 996 $aGenerations of Jewish Directors and the Struggle for America's Soul$92244914 997 $aUNINA