Hollywood's chosen people
Subtitle: the Jewish experience in American cinema
By: edited by Daniel Bernardi, Murray Pomerance, and Hava Tirosh-Samuelson
Series: Contemporary approaches to film and media series
Publisher: Detroit; Wayne State University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Wayne State University Press
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9780814334829; 9780814338070
Subjects: Jews in motion pictures; Jews in the motion picture industry
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the Hollywood question / Hava Tirosh-Samuelson, Daniel Bernardi, and Murray Pomerance; title: A forgotten masterpiece: Edward Sloman's His people / Lester D. Friedman; title: Jewish immigrant directors and their impact on Hollywood / Catherine Portuges; title: "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; title: Stardom, intermarriage, and consumption in the 1950s: the Debbie-Eddie-Liz scandal / Sumiko Higashi; title: Hats off to George Cukor! / William Rothman; title: Notes on Sontag and "Jewish moral seriousness" in American movies / Sarah Kozloff; title: The good German? Oskar Schindler and the movies, 1951-1993 / Peter Kramer; title: Representing atrocity: September 11 through the Holocaust lens / David Sterritt; title: David Mamet's Homicide: in or out? / Lucy Fischer; title: Boy-man schlemiels and super-nebishes: Adam Sandler and Ben Stiller / Vincent Brook; title: Who was Buddy Love?: screen performance and Jewish experience / Murray Pomerance; title: Assimilating Streisand: when too much is not enough / Vivian Sobchack.