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Author(s): Daniel Bernardi; Prof. Reviewer Wheeler Winston Dixon; Murray Pomerance; Hava Tirosh-Samuelson; Author Daniel Bernardi; Author Murray Pomerance; Author Reviewer David Sterritt; Author Hava Tirosh-Samuelson; Author William Rothman; Vincent Brook
ISBN(s): 9780814338070, 0814338070
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Year: 2012
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Author: Daniel Bernardi, Hava Tirosh Samuelson, Murray Pomerance

As studio bosses, directors, and actors, Jews have been heavily involved in film history and vitally involved in all aspects of film production. Yet Jewish characters have been represented onscreen in stereotypical and disturbing ways, while Jews have also helped to produce some of the most troubling stereotypes of people of color in Hollywood film history. In Hollywood’s Chosen People: The Jewish Experience in American Cinema, leading scholars consider the complex relationship between Jews and the film industry, as Jews have helped to construct Hollywood’s vision of the American dream and American collective identity and have in turn been shaped by those representations.

Editors Daniel Bernardi, Murray Pomerance, and Hava Tirosh-Samuelson introduce the volume with an overview of the history of Jews in American popular culture and the American film industry. Multidisciplinary contributors go on to discuss topics such as early Jewish films and directors, institutionalized anti-Semitism, Jewish identity and gossip culture, and issues of Jewish performance on film. Contributors draw on a diverse sampling of films, from representations of the Holocaust on film to screen comedy; filmmakers and writers, including David Mamet, George Cukor, Sidney Lumet, Edward Sloman, and Steven Spielberg; and stars, like Barbra Streisand, Adam Sandler, and Ben Stiller.

The Jewish experience in American cinema reveals much about the degree to which Jews have been integrated into and contribute to the making of American popular film culture. Scholars of Jewish studies, film studies, American history, and American culture as well as anyone interested in film history will find this volume fascinating reading.

Table of contents:

Introduction: The Hollywood Question

A Forgotten Masterpiece: Edward Sloman’s His People

Jewish Immigrant Directors and Their Impact on Hollywood

“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

Stardom, Intermarriage, and Consumption in the 1950s: The Debbie-Eddie-Liz Scandal

Hats off for George Cukor!

Notes on Sontag and “Jewish Moral Seriousness” in American Movies

The Good German?: Oskar Schindler and the Movies, 1951–1993

Representing Atrocity: September 11 through the Holocaust Lens

David Mamet’s Homicide: In or Out?

Boy-Man Schlemiels and Super-Nebishes: Adam Sandler and Ben Stiller

Who Was Buddy Love?: Screen Performance and Jewish Experience

Assimilating Streisand: When Too Much Is Not Enough

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