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Hollywood's chosen people : the Jewish experience in American cinema / edited by Daniel Bernardi, Murray Pomerance, and Hava Tirosh-Samuelson.
- Title
- Hollywood's chosen people : the Jewish experience in American cinema / edited by Daniel Bernardi, Murray Pomerance, and Hava Tirosh-Samuelson.
- Publication
- Detroit : Wayne State University Press, c2013.
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- Description
- viii, 270 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Series Statement
- Contemporary approaches to film and media series
- Uniform Title
- Project Muse UPCC books
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-244) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- 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 1950s: 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.
- ISBN
- 9780814334829 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9780814338070 (ebook)
- LCCN
- ^^2012004275
- OCLC
- 776032992
- SCSB-11744632
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library