The Jazz Singer (Wisconsin / Warner Bros. Screenplays) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0299076644 ISBN 13: 9780299076641

Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press, 1979

Synopsis

The Jazz Singer was the first feature length film with spoken dialog as part of the dramatic action. 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.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Publication date: 1979
• ISBN 10: 0299076644
• ISBN 13: 9780299076641
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 228
• Editor: Carringer Robert L., Balio Tino