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The 50 Greatest Jewish Movies
Kathryn Bernheimer
其他書名
A Critic's Ranking of the Very Best
出版Carol Publishing, 1998
主題Performing Arts / Film / GeneralPerforming Arts / Film / Guides & ReviewsPerforming Arts / Film / History & CriticismPerforming Arts / Film / ReferencePerforming Arts / Television / Reference
ISBN15597245799781559724579
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=o9MqAQAAIAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋The first book to review and rank movies depicting the Jewish experience, The 50 Greatest Jewish Movies offers a fascinating guided journey through film history.For the past century, the cinema has served to reflect our ambitions, frustrations, and beliefs. Because Jews created Hollywood and continue to be a driving force in the film industry, Jewish characters and concerns have been reflected with unusual clarity on the screen. In the movies, we see the greatest issues of Jewish life played out, including anti-Semitism, assimilation, relations with gentiles, the Holocaust and its aftereffects, Zionism, family dynamics, and the commitment to social justice.The 50 Greatest Jewish Movies provides an insightful analysis of the movies that best reflect the wide range of Jewish experience. The Chosen (1), covers every theme of twentieth-century Jewish life, including the still pressing issue of conflict between different Jewish religious traditions. Fiddler on the Roof (2), details the struggle to maintain Jewish identity in a changing world and contains the single most positive and best-known Jewish character in screen history. Steven Spielberg's ambitious Schindler's List (3) has had the greatest impact of any Holocaust film released to date. And Marjorie Morningstar (50) depicts the struggle to find a balance between personal autonomy and cultural connection.This entertaining and illuminating collection of in-depth essays, enhanced with fifty stunning movie stills, is filled with fascinating biographical and historical information. Did you know that Hollywood did not begin to address the horrors of the Holocaust until fourteen years after it was over? Or that it was not until the1960s that Jewish actors were routinely presented to the public without having their ethnic identity airbrushed?With today's increasing interest in what it means to be Jewish, curiosity about how the movies reflect and affect our world and our place in it is at an all time high. The 50 Greatest Jewish Movies provides a culturally sensitive critique of how Jews have been and continue to be defined.