Somewhere Over the Rainbow
Brand: Hamilton Books
Categories: Books, Humor & Entertainment, Movies



Dimensions: 6.04 x 0.48 x 8.68 inches
ISBN-13: 978-0761872238
Language: English
ISBN-10: 076187223X
Publisher: Hamilton Books
Print length: 161 pages
Publication date: August 24, 2020
subtitle: Paperback – August 24, 2020
author: DANIEL GOODMAN
review: Editorial Reviews Review This book takes its readers on a fascinating journey through recent Hollywood films that illustrate the deep experiential similarities between cinema and religion in bringing together the heavenly and the human, the sublime and the mundane. The appreciative, but also analytical and critical, treatments of individual movies engage with Jewish and Christian themes and texts, and are punctuated here and there with excurses on the life and legacy of Roger Ebert and the image of Jews in Hollywood film. An enjoyable, informative, and inspiring read for all film-lovers. -- Adele Reinhartz, professor and chair, Department of Classics and Religious Studies, University of Ottawa Goodman invites us into a conversation about film that stimulates the emotions and the intellect. He produces a rich fusion of insights from literary, philosophical, biblical, and rabbinic sources, while keeping the conversation light-hearted and accessible. -- Claudia Setzer, Professor of Religious Studies, Manhattan College This is a serious book but it is fun to read. On page after page, it surprises us with new insights drawn out of old iconic screen moments. After reading Goodman, you will reverse the old adage. Instead of saying “I lost it at the movies,” you will say: “I found it (vision/divinity/global connectivity) at the movies.” Thank God and thank Goodman. -- Irving Greenberg, President of the J.J. Greenberg Institute for the Advancement of Jewish Life About the Author Daniel Ross Goodman is a writer, rabbi, and scholar from western Massachusetts. He writes on art, film, literature, and sports for the Washington Examiner, and his short stories have been published in over a dozen literary journals. He is also the author of the novel A Single Life. He currently lives in New York, where he is a Ph.D. candidate at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America.