
Hollywood and Anti-Semitism : A Cultural History up to World War II.
Title:
Hollywood and Anti-Semitism : A Cultural History up to World War II.
Author:
Carr, Steven Alan.
ISBN:
9780511152887
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (360 pages)
Series:
Cambridge Studies in the History of Mass Communication
Contents:
Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: What Is the Hollywood Question? -- GABLER'S PARADOX -- THE HOLLYWOOD QUESTION -- GETTING TO THE HOLLYWOOD QUESTION -- PART 1 The Hollywood Question and American Anti-Semitism, 1880-1929 -- 1 Anti-Semitism and the American Jewish Question -- FROM INDIVIDUAL DEVIANCY TO COLLECTIVE INSTRUMENTALITY -- "100 PERCENT AMERICANS" -- "A PECULIAR JEWISH MONOPOLY" -- THE PROTOCOLS OF THE ELDERS OF ZION -- 2 Religion, Race, and Morality in the Hollywood Question -- INTRODUCTION -- "A BUSINESS, PURE AND SIMPLE" -- THE PROTESTANT PUSH FOR NATIONAL CENSORSHIP -- CATHOLIC WATCHDOGS -- HENRY FORD AND THE PROTOCOLS OF THE AMERICAN MIND -- PART 2 The Hollywood Question for a New America, 1929-1941 -- 3 A New Deal for the Hollywood Question -- "A DEEP-TONED SYMPHONY" -- A NEW DEAL FOR MOTION PICTURES -- A NEW DEAL FOR ANTI-SEMITISM -- THE PRODUCTION CODE AS HOLLYWOOD QUESTION -- 4 The Hollywood Question in Popular Culture -- WHAT PRICE, HOLLYWOOD QUESTION? -- "TAILORS TURNED CALIPHS": THE AUTHORITY OF THE INSIDER ACCOUNT -- "HEBREWS ARE ORIENTALS": THE DEPRESSION-ERA HOLLYWOOD NOVEL -- 5 The Politics of the Hollywood Question -- "INTELLIGENT GENTILES" -- "NOT AND NEVER HAVE BEEN MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY" -- THE HOLLYWOOD QUESTION AND ISOLATIONISM -- 6 Answering the Hollywood Question -- THE ANTI-SEMITISM OF "A VERY SICK DONKEY" -- "WORKING FOR GENTILES": THE HOLLYWOOD QUESTION IN HOLLYWOOD -- PART 3 The Hollywood Question, 1941 and Beyond -- 7 Popular Culture Answers the Hollywood Question -- "THE IDEA OF RIVINGTON STREET": THE HOLLYWOOD NOVEL AND NATIONAL IDENTITY -- "AN X-RAY INSTEAD OF A SPOTLIGHT": LEO ROSTEN'S HOLLYWOOD UNDER THE "MICROSCOPE OF SOCIAL SCIENCE" -- 8 The Hollywood Question in Crisis, 1941.
"A MATCH LIT NEAR EXCELSIOR": GERALD P. NYE AND CHARLES LINDBERGH, 1941 -- "WITH LIGHTS AND COLOR AND SOUND": THE MOTION PICTURE PROPAGANDA HEARINGS, 1941 -- "WE ARE NOT NEWCOMERS": THE HOLLYWOOD QUESTION FOR A NEW AMERICA -- 9 The New Hollywood Question -- ETHNIC ABSENCE: SELLING THE IDEAL OF AMERICA -- THE HOLLYWOOD QUESTION AND PARAMOUNT ET AL., 1948 -- ANTI-COMMUNISM AND THE NEW HOLLYWOOD QUESTION -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract:
Examines the role of American Jews in the entertainment industry.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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