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Release : 2007
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Author : Jack Fischel
Release : 2008-12-30
Genre : Social Science
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Book Synopsis Encyclopedia of Jewish American Popular Culture by : Jack Fischel
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Jewish American Popular Culture written by Jack Fischel. This book was released on 2008-12-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique encyclopedia chronicles American Jewish popular culture, past and present in music, art, food, religion, literature, and more. Over 150 entries, written by scholars in the field, highlight topics ranging from animation and comics to Hollywood and pop psychology. Without the profound contributions of American Jews, the popular culture we know today would not exist. Where would music be without the music of Bob Dylan and Barbra Streisand, humor without Judd Apatow and Jerry Seinfeld, film without Steven Spielberg, literature without Phillip Roth, Broadway without Rodgers and Hammerstein? These are just a few of the artists who broke new ground and changed the face of American popular culture forever. This unique encyclopedia chronicles American Jewish popular culture, past and present in music, art, food, religion, literature, and more. Over 150 entries, written by scholars in the field, highlight topics ranging from animation and comics to Hollywood and pop psychology. Up-to-date coverage and extensive attention to political and social contexts make this encyclopedia is an excellent resource for high school and college students interested in the full range of Jewish popular culture in the United States. Academic and public libraries will also treasure this work as an incomparable guide to our nation's heritage. Illustrations complement the text throughout, and many entries cite works for further reading. The volume closes with a selected, general bibliography of print and electronic sources to encourage further research.
Author : Paul Buhle
Release : 2004-06-17
Genre : Art
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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 : Joyce Antler
Release : 1998
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Talking Back by : Joyce Antler
Download or read book Talking Back written by Joyce Antler. This book was released on 1998. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays that discuss the portrayal of Jewish women in American culture.
Author : Alan Mintz
Release : 2012-04-01
Genre : Social Science
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Book Synopsis Popular Culture and the Shaping of Holocaust Memory in America by : Alan Mintz
Download or read book Popular Culture and the Shaping of Holocaust Memory in America written by Alan Mintz. This book was released on 2012-04-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Holocaust took place far from the United States and involved few Americans, yet rather than receding, this event has assumed a greater significance in the American consciousness with the passage of time. As a window into the process whereby the Holocaust has been appropriated in American culture, Hollywood movies are particularly luminous. Popular Culture and the Shaping of Holocaust Memory in America examines reactions to three films: Judgment at Nuremberg (1961), The Pawnbroker (1965), and Schindler�s List (1992), and considers what those reactions reveal about the place of the Holocaust in the American mind, and how those films have shaped the popular perception of the Holocaust. It also considers the difference in the reception of the two earlier films when they first appeared in the 1960s and retrospective evaluations of them from closer to our own times. Alan Mintz also addresses the question of how Americans will shape the memory of the Holocaust in the future, concluding with observations on the possibilities and limitations of what is emerging as the major resource for the shaping of Holocaust memory�videotaped survivor testimony. Popular Culture and the Shaping of Holocaust Memory in America examines some of the influences behind the broad and deep changes in American consciousness and the social forces that permitted the Holocaust to move from the margins to the center of American discourse.
