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Is diss a system? : a Milt Gross comic reader / / edited by Ari Y. Kelman



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Autore: Gross Milt <1895-1953.> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Is diss a system? : a Milt Gross comic reader / / edited by Ari Y. Kelman Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New York, : New York University Press, c2010
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (304 p.)
Disciplina: 741.5973
Soggetto topico: Comic books, strips, etc - United States
Jewish wit and humor, Pictorial
American wit and humor, Pictorial
Caricatures and cartoons - United States
Altri autori: KelmanAri Y. <1971->  
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction Geeve a Leesten! -- Nize Baby (1926) (excerpts) -- Dunt Esk! (1927) -- De Night in De Front from Chreesmas (1927) -- Hiawatta (1926) -- Famous Fimmales (1928) -- Assorted Milt Gross Images -- Bibliography -- About the Editor
Sommario/riassunto: Milt Gross (1895-1953), a Bronx-born cartoonist and animator, first found fame in the late 1920's, writing comic strips and newspaper columns in the unmistakable accent of Jewish immigrants. By the end of the 1920's, Gross had become one of the most famous humorists in the United States, his work drawing praise from writers like H. L. Mencken and Constance Roarke, even while some of his Jewish colleagues found Gross’ extreme renderings of Jewish accents to be more crass than comical. Working during the decline of vaudeville and the rise of the newspaper cartoon strip, Gross captured American humor in transition. Gross adapted the sounds of ethnic humor from the stage to the page and developed both a sound and a sensibility that grew out of an intimate knowledge of immigrant life. His parodies of beloved poetry sounded like reading primers set loose on the Lower East Side, while his accounts of Jewish tenement residents echoed with the mistakes and malapropisms born of the immigrant experience. Introduced by an historical essay, Is Diss a System? presents some of the most outstanding and hilarious examples of Jewish dialect humor drawn from the five books Gross published between 1926 and 1928—Nize Baby, De Night in de Front from Chreesmas, Hiawatta, Dunt Esk, and Famous Fimmales—providing a fresh opportunity to look, read, and laugh at this nearly forgotten forefather of American Jewish humor.
Titolo autorizzato: Is diss a system  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8147-4914-3
1-4416-3385-5
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910809456503321
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Serie: Goldstein-Goren series in American Jewish history.