From Shtetl to Stardom : Jews and Hollywood.

Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Editorial Introduction -- Part 1: Histories -- Chapter 1: Still an Empire of Their Own: How Jews Remain Atop a Reinvented Hollywood -- Chapter 2: The Ben Urwand Controversy: Exploring the Hollywood-Hitler Relationship -- Caution or Collaboration? The Doherty-Urwand Controversy -- Hollywood and Nazi Germany: Reflections on What Might Have Been -- Coda to the Doherty-Urwand Panel -- Part 2: Case Studies -- Chapter 3: Dirty Jews: Amy Schumer and Other Vulgar Jewesses -- Chapter 4: "The Woman Thing and the Jew Thing": Transsexuality, Transcomedy, and the Legacy of Subversive Jewishness in Transparent -- Chapter 5: Eastern-European Fatalism in Minnesota: The Mournful Destinies of A Serious Man -- Chapter 6: "If Jewish People Wrote All the Songs": The Anti-Folklore of Allan Sherman -- Part 3: Up-Close and Personal -- Chapter 7: Comedy and Corned Beef: The Genesis of the Sitcom Writing Room -- Chapter 8: The Faemmle Business: Laemmle Theaters, Los Angeles, and the Moviegoing Experience-an Interview with Bob and Greg Laemmle -- Chapter 9: An Outsider's View of Sixties America: Matthew Weiner Talks with Michael Renov about the Jews of Mad Men -- About the Contributors -- The USC Casden Institute for the Study of the Jewish Role in American Life.

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