ISBN:
9781438494210
,
9781438494203
Language:
English
Pages:
xi, 349 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
,
24 cm
Year of publication:
2023
Series Statement:
SUNY series, Horizons of cinema
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Keywords:
Geschichte 1933-1948
;
Jiddisch
;
Film
;
USA
;
Polen
;
Motion pictures, Yiddish / History
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Communication in motion pictures
;
Mass media in motion pictures
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Communication in motion pictures
;
Mass media in motion pictures
;
Motion pictures, Yiddish
;
History
;
Polen
;
USA
;
Jiddisch
;
Film
;
Geschichte 1933-1948
Abstract:
"Offers a bold new reading of Yiddish cinema by exploring the early diasporic cinema's fascination with media and communication"--
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction : "The structure of communication is the infrastructure of human reality" -- Powers of music : A little letter to mother (1938) -- Discourse and dialogue : The living orphan (1939) -- The mass media family : Kol Nidre (1939) -- The battle of the books : Tevye (1939) -- Migration, motherhood, and the asylum : Where is my child? (1937) -- Silence which is communication : Motel the operator (1939) -- Groundlessness I (the nation against the Jew) : The wandering Jew (1933) -- Groundlessness II (among the DPs) : Long is the road (1948) -- Mediating the mystical : The Dybbuk (1937)
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