The American Jewish Story through Cinema / / Eric A. Goldman.
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 strongly influenced...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021] ©2013 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- 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