ISBN:
9783030760311
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 270 pages)
Year of publication:
2021
Series Statement:
Renewing the American Narrative
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Abstract:
Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Praise for Generations of Jewish Directors and the Struggle for America's Soul -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Jewish Directors and the "New Covenant"-Wyler, Lumet, and Spielberg -- The New Covenant, the American Jeremiad, and the American Soul -- Jewish Modernism and the American Story: A Shared "Mission" to the World -- Levinas, Ethical Transcendence, and the New Covenant -- William Wyler -- Sidney Lumet -- Steven Spielberg -- The New Covenant Today: David Brooks -- Part I: William Wyler's America -- Chapter 2: Bogart to Bogart: A Changing America from Dead End to The Desperate Hours -- Escape from the Past: Prejudice, Persecution, and Pogroms -- Wyler's Two Bogarts: American Gangsters -- Location Location -- Dead End and The Bridge -- "Baby Face" and Big Brother: The American Family in Crisis -- Chapter 3: Wyler: Surveying the Changing American Scene -- The War Years: Fighting for Liberal Democracy -- Love, Gender, and Sexuality -- Ben-Hur in the Time of Trump: A Brief Note -- The Liberal Challenge: African-Americans and the American Soul -- Part II: Sidney Lumet: Conscience and Democracy -- Chapter 4: Jew Grit: The New York Frontier and the Making of a Moralist -- The Lower East Side -- Conscience of the City: Serpico -- Martyrdom -- Hippie Cop of the Counter Culture -- Chapter 5: Filming "The Crisis of American Civic Liberalism" -- The Virulence of Mediated Madness: Network -- Daniel I: A New York Epic from the Lower East Side to the Bronx -- Daniel 2: The Existential and Ethical Imperative: Love and Death in America -- Part III: Steven Spielberg: Reform, Redemption, and Films of American Renewal -- Chapter 6: Spielberg, America's Soul, and the New Covenant -- Seeker: The Journey of Steven Spielberg -- Schindler's List I: The Holocaust and Democracy at Home
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