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The American Jewish story through cinema

Goldman, Eric A.

The American Jewish story through cinema [electronic resource] / by Eric A. Goldman. - Austin : University of Texas Press, 2013. - 1 online resource (264 p.) - The Jewish history, life, and culture series .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: a century of American Jewish life -- The jazz singer: out of the Jewish ghetto (the 1920s) -- Gentleman's agreement and Crossfire: films that took on anti-semitism in 1947 (the 1940s) -- The young lions: guaranteeing acceptance (the 1950s) -- The way we were and The prince of tides: Barbra Streisand and the evolving American Jewish woman (the 1970s and 1980s) -- Avalon and Liberty heights: the spirit of family--remembering better (the 1990s) -- Everything is illuminated: a new direction in film-- Searching for a usable past (the twenty-first century).

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Jews in the motion picture industry--United States.
Jews in motion pictures.


Electronic books.

PN1995.9.J46 / G48 2013

791.43/6552