The American Jewish story through cinema /
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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Austin :
University of Texas Press,
2013
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Full text (MFA users only) |
| ISBN: | 0292744315 9780292744318 |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
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).