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Author : Paul Buhle
Release : 2004-06-17
Genre : Art
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Book Rating : 981/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis From the Lower East Side to Hollywood by : Paul Buhle
Download or read book From the Lower East Side to Hollywood written by Paul Buhle. This book was released on 2004-06-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lively, extensively illustrated history of the widespread influence of Jews on American popular culture through the twentieth century.
Author : Kerri P. Steinberg
Release : 2015-02-16
Genre : Business & Economics
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Book Rating : 771/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Jewish Mad Men by : Kerri P. Steinberg
Download or read book Jewish Mad Men written by Kerri P. Steinberg. This book was released on 2015-02-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is easy to dismiss advertising as simply the background chatter of modern life, often annoying, sometimes hilarious, and ultimately meaningless. But Kerri P. Steinberg argues that a careful study of the history of advertising can reveal a wealth of insight into a culture. In Jewish Mad Men, Steinberg looks specifically at how advertising helped shape the evolution of American Jewish life and culture over the past one hundred years. Drawing on case studies of famous advertising campaigns—from Levy’s Rye Bread (“You don’t have to be Jewish to love Levy’s”) to Hebrew National hot dogs (“We answer to a higher authority”)—Steinberg examines advertisements from the late nineteenth-century in New York, the center of advertising in the United States, to trace changes in Jewish life there and across the entire country. She looks at ads aimed at the immigrant population, at suburbanites in midcentury, and at hipster and post-denominational Jews today. In addition to discussing campaigns for everything from Manischewitz wine to matzoh, Jewish Mad Men also portrays the legendary Jewish figures in advertising—like Albert Lasker and Bill Bernbach—and lesser known “Mad Men” like Joseph Jacobs, whose pioneering agency created the brilliantly successful Maxwell House Coffee Haggadah. Throughout, Steinberg uses the lens of advertising to illuminate the Jewish trajectory from outsider to insider, and the related arc of immigration, acculturation, upward mobility, and suburbanization. Anchored in the illustrations, photographs, jingles, and taglines of advertising, Jewish Mad Men features a dozen color advertisements and many black-and-white images. Lively and insightful, this book offers a unique look at both advertising and Jewish life in the United States.
Author : Bettina Berch
Release : 2009
Genre : Authors, American
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Book Rating : 841/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis From Hester Street to Hollywood by : Bettina Berch
Download or read book From Hester Street to Hollywood written by Bettina Berch. This book was released on 2009. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first full-scale biography of Jewish-American authorAnzia Yezierska. Based on extensive research into her letters and writings, it tells the real story of America's "Sweatshop Cinderella."
Author : Thomas Doherty
Release : 1999-08-27
Genre : Performing Arts
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Book Rating : 128/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Pre-Code Hollywood by : Thomas Doherty
Download or read book Pre-Code Hollywood written by Thomas Doherty. This book was released on 1999-08-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pre-Code Hollywood explores the fascinating period in American motion picture history from 1930 to 1934 when the commandments of the Production Code Administration were violated with impunity in a series of wildly unconventional films—a time when censorship was lax and Hollywood made the most of it. Though more unbridled, salacious, subversive, and just plain bizarre than what came afterwards, the films of the period do indeed have the look of Hollywood cinema—but the moral terrain is so off-kilter that they seem imported from a parallel universe. In a sense, Doherty avers, the films of pre-Code Hollywood are from another universe. They lay bare what Hollywood under the Production Code attempted to cover up and push offscreen: sexual liaisons unsanctified by the laws of God or man, marriage ridiculed and redefined, ethnic lines crossed and racial barriers ignored, economic injustice exposed and political corruption assumed, vice unpunished and virtue unrewarded—in sum, pretty much the raw stuff of American culture, unvarnished and unveiled. No other book has yet sought to interpret the films and film-related meanings of the pre-Code era—what defined the period, why it ended, and what its relationship was to the country as a whole during the darkest years of the Great Depression... and afterward.
Author : Steven Mintz
Release : 2010-03
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 035/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Hollywood's America by : Steven Mintz
Download or read book Hollywood's America written by Steven Mintz. This book was released on 2010-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fully revised, updated, and extended, this compilation of interpretive essays and primary documents teaches students to read films as cultural artifacts within the contexts of actual past events. A new edition of this classic textbook, which ties movies into the broader narrative of US and film history Ten new articles which consider recently released films, as well as issues of gender and ethnicity Well-organized within a chronological framework with thematic treatments to provide a valuable resource for students of the history of American film Fourth edition includes completely new images throughout
