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Hollywood's Chosen People : The Jewish Experience in American Cinema.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media SeriesPublisher: Detroit : Wayne State University Press, 2012Copyright date: ©2013Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (280 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780814338070
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Hollywood's Chosen PeopleDDC classification:
  • 791.43/652924
LOC classification:
  • PN1995.9.J46 -- H63 2013eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Contents -- 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 -- Index.
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Cover -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Contents -- 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 -- Index.

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