Hollywood's chosen people : the Jewish experience in American cinema /
Bernardi, Daniel,1964-
Pomerance, Murray,1946-
Tirosh-Samuelson, Hava,1950-
Detroit : Wayne State University Press,
c2013.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-244) and index.
Introduction: the Hollywood question / Hava Tirosh-Samuelson, Daniel Bernardi, and Murray Pomerance -- A forgotten masterpiece: Edward Sloman's His people / Lester D. Friedman -- Jewish immigrant directors and their impact on Hollywood / Catherine Portuges -- "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 / Wheeler Winston Dixon -- Stardom, intermarriage, and consumption in the 1950s: the Debbie-Eddie-Liz scandal / Sumiko Higashi -- Hats off to George Cukor! / William Rothman -- Notes on Sontag and "Jewish moral seriousness" in American movies / Sarah Kozloff -- The good German? Oskar Schindler and the movies, 1951-1993 / Peter Kramer -- Representing atrocity: September 11 through the Holocaust lens / David Sterritt -- David Mamet's Homicide: in or out? / Lucy Fischer -- Boy-man schlemiels and super-nebishes: Adam Sandler and Ben Stiller / Vincent Brook -- Who was Buddy Love?: screen performance and Jewish experience / Murray Pomerance -- Assimilating Streisand: when too much is not enough / Vivian Sobchack.
Jews in motion pictures.
Jews in the motion picture industry