The American Jewish story through cinema

The American Jewish story through cinema / by Eric A. Goldman.

By analyzing select mainstream films from the beginning of the sound era up through the early twenty-first century, this study uses the medium of cinema to provide an understanding of the American Jewish experience over the last century.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Goldman, Eric A.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2013
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Jewish history, life, and culture.
Subjects:
Jews in motion pictures.
Jews in the motion picture industry > United States.
ART > Film & Video.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > Reference.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > History & Criticism.
Jews in motion pictures
Jews in the motion picture industry
United States
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : a century of American Jewish life
  • The jazz singer : out of the Jewish ghetto (the 1920s)
  • Gentleman's agreement and Crossfire : films that took on anti-semitism in 1947 (the 1940s)
  • The young lions : guaranteeing acceptance (the 1950s)
  • The way we were and The prince of tides : Barbra Streisand and the evolving American Jewish woman (the 1970s and 1980s)
  • Avalon and Liberty heights : the spirit of family
  • remembering better (the 1990s)
  • Everything is illuminated : a new direction in film
  • Searching for a usable past (the twenty-first century).

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