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The American Jewish Story through Cinema /
Like the haggadah, the traditional "telling" of the story of the Israelites' exodus from Egypt that is read at the Passover seder, cinema offers a valuable text from which to gain an understanding of the social, political, and cultural realities of Jews in America. In an industry stro...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Austin :
University of Texas Press,
[2021]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface. Film as Haggadah: Toward a Better Understanding of America's Jews
- Chapter 1 Introduction: A Century of American Jewish Life
- Chapter 2 The Jazz Singer: Out of the Jewish Ghetto (The 1920s)
- Chapter 3. Gentleman's Agreement and Crossfire: Films That Took on Anti- Semitism in 1947 (The 1940s)
- Chapter 4 The Young Lions: Guaranteeing Acceptance (The 1950s)
- Chapter 5 The Way We Were and The Prince of Tides: Barbra Streisand and the Evolving American Jewish Woman (The 1970s And 1980s)
- Chapter 6 Avalon and Liberty Heights: The Spirit of Family-Remembering Better (The 1990s)
- Chapter 7 Everything Is Illuminated: A New Direction in Film-Searching for a Usable Past (The Twenty- first century)
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Selected Filmography
- Index