Hollywood and Anti-Semitism - A Cultural History Up to World War II

Klappentext Examines the role of American Jews in the entertainment industry. Zusammenfassung Examines the role of American Jews in the entertainment industry. Steven Carr reconceptualizes Jewish involvement in Hollywood by examining prevalent attitudes towards Jews among American audiences! revealing a powerful set of assumptions concerning ethnicity and the influence of the media. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: what is the Hollywood question?; Part I. The Hollywood Question and American Anti-Semitism, 1880-1929: 1. Anti-Semitism and the American Jewish question; 2. Religion, race and morality in the Hollywood question; Part II. The Hollywood Question for a New America, 1929-1941: 3. A New Deal for the Hollywood question; 4. The Hollywood question in popular culture; 5. The politics of the Hollywood question; 6. Answering the Hollywood question; Part III. The Hollywood Question, 1941 and Beyond: 7. Popular culture answers the Hollywood question; 8. The Hollywood question in crisis, 1941; 9. The new Hollywood question.

Product details

• Authors: Steven Alan Carr, Steven Alan (Purdue University Carr, Carr Steven Alan
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2001
• EAN: 9780521798549
• ISBN: 978-0-521-79854-9
• No. of pages: 360
• Series: Cambridge Studies in the Histo; Cambridge Studies in the History of Mass Communication
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches; USA, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Entertainment, Films, cinema, Jewish Studies, United States of America, USA, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General, Film, TV and Radio industries, Cinema Industry, Relating to Jewish people and groups, Social groups: religious groups and communities