Driven to Darkness : Jewish Emigre Directors and the Rise of Film Noir / / Vincent Brook |
Autore | Brook Vincent |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New Brunswick, NJ : , : Rutgers University Press, , [2009] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (299 p.) |
Disciplina |
791.43/6556
791.436556 |
Soggetto topico |
Film noir - History and criticism - United States
Jewish motion picture producers and directors - United States |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-280-49243-0
9786613587664 0-8135-4833-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Jews in Germany: Torn Between Two Worlds -- 3. Jews and Expressionism: "Performing High and Low" -- 4. The Father of Film Noir: Fritz Lang -- 5. Fritz Lang in Hollywood -- 6. The French Connection: Robert Siodmak -- 7. Viennese Twins: Billy and Willy Wilder -- 8. The ABZs of Film Noir: Otto Preminger and Edgar G. Ulmer -- 9. Woman's Directors: Curtis Bernhardt and Max Ophuls -- 10. Pathological Noir, Populist Noir, and an Act of Violence: John Brahm, Anatole Litvak, Fred Zinnemann -- Appendix: American Film Noirs by Jewish Émigré Directors -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910456591603321 |
Brook Vincent | ||
New Brunswick, NJ : , : Rutgers University Press, , [2009] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Driven to Darkness : Jewish Emigre Directors and the Rise of Film Noir / / Vincent Brook |
Autore | Brook Vincent |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New Brunswick, NJ : , : Rutgers University Press, , [2009] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (299 p.) |
Disciplina |
791.43/6556
791.436556 |
Soggetto topico |
Film noir - History and criticism - United States
Jewish motion picture producers and directors - United States |
ISBN |
1-280-49243-0
9786613587664 0-8135-4833-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Jews in Germany: Torn Between Two Worlds -- 3. Jews and Expressionism: "Performing High and Low" -- 4. The Father of Film Noir: Fritz Lang -- 5. Fritz Lang in Hollywood -- 6. The French Connection: Robert Siodmak -- 7. Viennese Twins: Billy and Willy Wilder -- 8. The ABZs of Film Noir: Otto Preminger and Edgar G. Ulmer -- 9. Woman's Directors: Curtis Bernhardt and Max Ophuls -- 10. Pathological Noir, Populist Noir, and an Act of Violence: John Brahm, Anatole Litvak, Fred Zinnemann -- Appendix: American Film Noirs by Jewish Émigré Directors -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910780830003321 |
Brook Vincent | ||
New Brunswick, NJ : , : Rutgers University Press, , [2009] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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You should see yourself [[electronic resource] ] : Jewish identity in postmodern American culture / / edited by Vincent Brook |
Autore | Brook Vincent |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New Brunswick, N.J., : Rutgers University Press, c2006 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (350 p.) |
Disciplina | 700/.452992400904 |
Altri autori (Persone) | BrookVincent <1946-> |
Soggetto topico |
Jews in popular culture - United States
Popular culture - Religious aspects - Judaism Postmodernism - United States Postmodernism - Religious aspects - Judaism |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-281-31654-7
9786611316549 0-8135-3996-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Seeing Isn’t Believing -- Introduction -- Re-imagining the Jew’s Body: From Self-Loathing to “Grepts” -- Recalling “Home” from Beneath the Shadow of the Holocaust: American Jewish Women Writers of the New Wave -- Introduction -- “Your World Is Very Different from Mine”: Troubling Jewish Identity in Postmodern American Theater -- Tony Kushner’s Metaphorical Jew -- Introduction -- Exploring the Postmodern Landscape of Jewish Music -- Continuity, Creativity, and Conflict: The Ongoing Search for “Jewish” Music -- Introduction -- The Jewish Man and His Dancing Shtick: Stock Characterization and Jewish Masculinity in Postmodern Dance -- Introduction -- Between Exile and Irony: Modernism, Postmodernism, and Jewish Modes of Thought -- Observant Jews and the Photographic Arena of Looks -- Introduction -- Joke-Work: The Construction of Jewish Postmodern Identity in Contemporary Theory and American Film -- They All Are Jews -- Introduction -- Genealogies of Jewish Stand-up: Looking Back, Moving Beyond -- Introduction -- Something Old Is New Again? Postmodern Jewishness in Curb Your Enthusiasm, Arrested Development, and The O.C. -- “Y’all Killed Him, We Didn’t!” Jewish Self-Hatred and The Larry Sanders Show -- Contributors -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910451382603321 |
Brook Vincent | ||
New Brunswick, N.J., : Rutgers University Press, c2006 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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You should see yourself : Jewish identity in postmodern American culture / / edited by Vincent Brook |
Autore | Brook Vincent |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New Brunswick, N.J. : , : Rutgers University Press, , 2006 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (ix, 337 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 700/.452992400904 |
Altri autori (Persone) | BrookVincent <1946-> |
Soggetto topico |
Jews in popular culture - United States
Popular culture - Religious aspects - Judaism Postmodernism - United States Postmodernism - Religious aspects - Judaism |
ISBN |
1-281-31654-7
9786611316549 0-8135-3996-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Seeing Isn’t Believing -- Introduction -- Re-imagining the Jew’s Body: From Self-Loathing to “Grepts” -- Recalling “Home” from Beneath the Shadow of the Holocaust: American Jewish Women Writers of the New Wave -- Introduction -- “Your World Is Very Different from Mine”: Troubling Jewish Identity in Postmodern American Theater -- Tony Kushner’s Metaphorical Jew -- Introduction -- Exploring the Postmodern Landscape of Jewish Music -- Continuity, Creativity, and Conflict: The Ongoing Search for “Jewish” Music -- Introduction -- The Jewish Man and His Dancing Shtick: Stock Characterization and Jewish Masculinity in Postmodern Dance -- Introduction -- Between Exile and Irony: Modernism, Postmodernism, and Jewish Modes of Thought -- Observant Jews and the Photographic Arena of Looks -- Introduction -- Joke-Work: The Construction of Jewish Postmodern Identity in Contemporary Theory and American Film -- They All Are Jews -- Introduction -- Genealogies of Jewish Stand-up: Looking Back, Moving Beyond -- Introduction -- Something Old Is New Again? Postmodern Jewishness in Curb Your Enthusiasm, Arrested Development, and The O.C. -- “Y’all Killed Him, We Didn’t!” Jewish Self-Hatred and The Larry Sanders Show -- Contributors -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910777884603321 |
Brook Vincent | ||
New Brunswick, N.J. : , : Rutgers University Press, , 2006 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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