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Hollywood's Chosen People The Jewish Experience in American Cinema

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ISBN-10: 0814334822

ISBN-13: 9780814334829

Edition: 2012

Authors: Daniel Bernardi, Murray Pomerance, Hava Tirosh-Samuelson

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Investigates the relationship between Jewish identity and American film from a number of perspectives.
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Book details

List price: $32.99
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Publication date: 9/30/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.990

DANIEL BERNARDI is Director of Film and Media Studies at Arizona State University in Tempe. He is the author of STAR TREK and History: Race-ing Toward Whiteness and editor of several volumes on whiteness and film history.

Murray Pomeranceis Professor of Sociology and Media Studies at Ryerson University. He is the author ofJohnny Depp Starts Here, An Eye for Hitchcock, andFilm Experience Beyond Narrative and Theory, among many books.

Hava Tirosh-Samuelson is Director of the Jewish Studies Program at Arizona State University.

Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Hollywood Question
A Forgotten Masterpiece: Edward Sloman's His People
Jewish Immigrant Directors and Their Impact on Hollywood
"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
Stardom, Intermarriage, and Consumption in the 1950s: The Debbie-Eddie-Liz Scandal
Hats off for George Cukor!
Notes on Sontag and "Jewish Moral Seriousness" in American Movies
The Good German?: Oskar Schindler and the Movies, 1951-1993
Representing Atrocity: September 11 through the Holocaust Lens
David Mamet's Homicide: In or Out?
Boy-Man Schlemiels and Super-Nebishes: Adam Sandler and Ben Stiller
Who Was Buddy Love?: Screen Performance and Jewish Experience
Assimilating Streisand: When Too Much Is Not Enough
Works Cited
Contributors
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