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Driven to Darkness : Jewish Emigre Directors and the Rise of Film Noir / / Vincent Brook
| 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
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| New Brunswick, NJ : , : Rutgers University Press, , [2009] | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Driven to darkness [[electronic resource] ] : Jewish émigré directors and the rise of film noir / / Vincent Brook
| Driven to darkness [[electronic resource] ] : Jewish émigré directors and the rise of film noir / / Vincent Brook |
| Autore | Brook Vincent <1946-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New Brunswick, N.J, : Rutgers University Press, c2009 |
| Descrizione fisica | ix, 285 p. : ill. ; ; 23 cm |
| Soggetto topico |
Film noir - United States - History and criticism
Jewish motion picture producers and directors - United States |
| ISBN | 0-8135-4630-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction -- Jews in Germany : torn between two worlds -- Jews and expressionism : "performing high and low" -- The father of film noir : Fritz Lang -- Fritz Lang in Hollywood -- The French connection : Robert Siodmak -- Viennese twins : Billy and Willy Wilder -- The ABZs of film noir : Otto Preminger and Edgar G. Ulmer -- Woman's directors : Curtis Bernhardt and Max Ophuls -- Pathological noir, populist noir, and an act of violence : John Brahm, Anatole Litvak, Fred Zinnemann. |
| Record Nr. | UNISA-996248243503316 |
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Brook Vincent <1946->
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| New Brunswick, N.J, : Rutgers University Press, c2009 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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Driven to Darkness : Jewish Emigre Directors and the Rise of Film Noir / / Vincent Brook
| 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 |
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Brook Vincent
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| New Brunswick, NJ : , : Rutgers University Press, , [2009] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Generations of Jewish directors and the struggle for America's soul : Wyler, Lumet, and Spielberg / / Sam B. Girgus
| Generations of Jewish directors and the struggle for America's soul : Wyler, Lumet, and Spielberg / / Sam B. Girgus |
| Autore | Girgus Sam B. <1941-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2021] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (278 pages) |
| Disciplina | 791.430233092273 |
| Collana | Renewing the American Narrative |
| Soggetto topico |
Jewish motion picture producers and directors - United States
Motion pictures - Moral and ethical aspects - United States |
| ISBN | 3-030-76031-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Intro -- 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.
Schindler'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. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910495193003321 |
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Girgus Sam B. <1941->
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| Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2021] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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