The Jazz singer (Wisconsin/Warner Bros. screenplay series) - Hardcover

Carringer, Robert L. (Editor) Balio, Tino. (General Editor) Cohn, Alfred A. (Screenplay Based On The Stage Play By Samson Raphaelson)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0299076601 ISBN 13: 9780299076603

Publisher: WISCONSIN., 1979

Synopsis

Set in the 1920s, it deals with the elemental conflicts underlying a precise historical moment for the first-generation Jew in America—sacred versus profane, Jew versus Gentile, ascetic versus libertine, deprivation versus economic promise, immobility versus displacement.

About this title

About the Author

    Robert L. Carringer, Associate Professor of English and Cinema Studies at the University of Illinois at Ubrana-Champaign, has written numerous articles on film and, with Barry Sabath, The Film Career of Ernest Lubitsch.
    Tino Balio, Professor in the Department of Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, is the author of United Artists: The Company Built by the Stars, United Artists: The Company That Changed the Film Industry, and the editor of The American Film Industry as well as the 22 volume Wisconsin/Warner Bros. Screenplay series, all published by the University of Wisconsin Press. He directed the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theatre Research from 1966 to 1882.

Edition details

• Publisher: WISCONSIN.
• Publication date: 1979
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0299076601
• ISBN 13: 9780299076603
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 188