Gravity Fails: The Comic Jewish Shaping of America Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Gravity Fails: The Comic Jewish Shaping of America Book

The comedic work of the children of modern Jewish immigrants overturned the prevailing languages and imageries with which an Anglocentric United States had traditionally represented and expanded itself. In this book, Bloom approaches these developments by first surveying this transformation as it affected literature, entertainment, commerce, and politics, and then offers sharply focused chapters that look at changes in sexual candor, reactions to the Holocaust, and critiques of race. Including considerations of the work of such diverse artists as Woody Allen, Mel Brooks, Lenny Bruce, Gilda Radner, Philip Roth, Jerry Seinfeld, and Stephen Sondheim, Gravity Fails provides a unique, penetrating, and hilarious look at a major force in the progress of American culture.Read More

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  • 027597720X
  • 9780275977207
  • James D. Bloom
  • 30 June 2003
  • Praeger Publishers Inc
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 216
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