| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 275 pages) : illustrations. |
| Series |
Brandeis series in American Jewish history, culture, and life |
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Brandeis series in American Jewish history, culture, and life.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-262) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: on being "too Jewish" in "this weird loop" -- Learning to be "more American", the Goldbergs -- "Write Yiddish, cast British", from Dick van Dyke to Mrs. G -- Prime-time intermarriage I, Bridget loves Bernie -- The dramas-Thirtysomething and Northern exposure -- Intermarriage II (Shiksa goddesses transforming Jewish guys): Anything but love, Flying blind, Mad about you, Brooklyn Bridge, and more -- Intermarriage III (some Jewish women get Gentile guys), Rhoda, The nanny, Dharma & Greg, Friends, Will & Grace -- A "too-Jewish", not-Jewish-enough Jew for the '90s, Seinfeld -- Looping back, breaking ground, and calculating loss, 100 Centre Street, The education of Max Bickford, State of Grace. |
| Summary |
How did it happen that in a time when networks were run by Jewish men, and many television shows were written by Jewish writers, there were so few identifiably Jewish characters on television? In this provocative book, critic Zurawik marshals compelling evidence to suggest that, during television's first 35 years, its primarily Jewish power brokers actively suppressed Jewish characters and Jewish themes from appearing on the small screen. Only when the moguls sold their interest in the networks and moved on did things begin to change--but in many of the programs that followed, Jewish characters fell into stereotypical roles. Based on more than one hundred interviews gathered over ten years with network executives, producers, and actors, Zurawik's book gives voice to these insiders--who reveal, for the first time, how and why the depiction of Jews on television has followed such a strange, unpredictable course.--From publisher description. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified star MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Local Note |
EBSCOhost History Reference Center |
| Language |
English. |
| Subject |
Jews on television.
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Jews on television. (OCoLC)fst00983404
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic book.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Zurawik, David. Jews of prime time. Hanover, N.H. : Brandeis University Press, published by University Press of New England, ©2003 (DLC) 2002155476 (OCoLC)51222186 |
| ISBN |
1584652349 (alkaline paper) |
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9781584652342 (alkaline paper) |
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