When Joseph Met Molly: Reader on Yiddish Films - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0907123929 ISBN 13 : 9780907123927

Editeur : Five Leaves Publications, 1999

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

From the days of the silent movies to the start of World War Two, Yiddish film was a major form of entertainment for millions of Jews in Europe and America. The modern audience may only remember the Yiddish-speaking Indians in Mel Brook's Blazing Saddles, but the influence of Yiddish film can be traced in the work of cult director Edgar G. Ulmer as well as contemporary directors such as Woody Allen and Sidney Lumet. Yiddish film was much more than just film in the Yiddish langauge, it was a medium in which tradition clashed with modernity, notably in the films where Mollie Picon was the actor and Joseph Green the director. In the West, Yiddish film was at the same time the medium through which the immigrant generation could recall their East European life and the bridge to life beyond the shtetl. This is the first ever Reader in Yiddish film and the only book on Yiddish film published in the UK. The authors, however, are from many countries and traditions.

Biographie de l'auteur

Sylvia Paskin is a writer and lecturer on film. She has co-edited three collections of poetry, including (for Five Leaves) The Dybbuk of Delight, an anthology of Jewish women's poetry and, again for Five Leaves, The Slow Mirror and Other Stories: new fiction by Jewish writers.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Five Leaves Publications
• Date d'édition: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0907123929
• ISBN 13: 9780907123927
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 296
• Éditeur: Paskin Sylvia
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• Personne responsable: non disponible