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Hollywood and Anti-Semitism: A Cultural History up to World War II (Cambridge Studies in the History of Mass...
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by Steven Alan Carr
Sales Rank: 1446898
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Cover Type: Paperback with 358 pages
Published by: Cambridge University Press April 30, 2001
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 052179854X
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0521798549
Book Dimensions:
8.9 x 5.8 x 0.9 inches
Weighs: 1.1 pounds
From Library Journal
Carr (communications, Indiana Univ.- Purdue Univ. Fort Wayne) has written a scholarly history of anti-Semitism in Hollywood. Exhaustively researched, the book looks at the key issues behind anti-Semitism in the movie industry and the attitudes of American audiences. The author explores the way Jews were portrayed in film and the various ethnic stereotypes American moviegoers watched. This stereotyping reinforced the negative view of Jews in society. Though written in a dry academic style, the book includes extensive notes and a bibliography and is an great resource on Hollywood's anti-Semitism. Photographs and cartoons depicting anti-Jewish sentiments enhance the text. There are numerous examples to validate Carr's thesis, such as Charles Lindbergh's famous remark that "the greatest danger to this country lies in their [Jews] large ownership and influence in our motion pictures, our press, our radio, and our government." This thought-provoking book is recommended for academic libraries. Rosalind Dayen, Broward Cty. South Regional Lib., Pembroke Pines, FL
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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"Hollywood and Anti-Semitism is intensely researched and sensibly weighed.results of [Carr's] inquiry are vivid, disgusting, and enlightening. But his book establishes a grimly fascinating and uncomfortably close chapter in the long history of a curse." The New Republic
"Carr has written a scholarly history of anti-Semitism in Hollywood. Exhaustively researchedthe book includes extensive notes and a bibliography and is an great resource on Hollywood's anti-Semitism. This thought-provoking book is recommended for academic libraries." Library Journal
"An impressively researched and closely reasoned cultural history." London Review of Books, March 2002
Reader Reviews
This is a well-researched work that deals with Hollywood and issues of Jewish control - and how those issues have influenced politics and popular culture. The writing is nothing spectacular - a tone that was a bit livelier would certainly not have hurt the book's academic credibility - but Carr compensates by offering a mountain of research. It's amazing to see what kinds of offensive things that members of the government and famous citizens (Henry Ford, Charles Lindbergh) got away with saying only 60-70 years ago. All in all, this is a useful book on an important subject.
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