Blackface, white noise : Jewish immigrants in the Hollywood melting pot

Blackface, white noise : Jewish immigrants in the Hollywood melting pot / Michael Rogin.

Author/creator	Rogin, Michael Paul
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1996.
Description	xvi, 339 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Supplemental Content	Contributor biographical information
Supplemental Content	Publisher description
Subject(s)	African Americans in motion pictures. Jews in the motion picture industry--United States. Jews--Cultural assimilation --United States. Blackface entertainers--United States. Jewish entertainers--United States.

Contents	Made in America. Uncle Sammy and my Mammy ; Two declarations of independence: the contaminated origins of American national culture ; Nationalism, blackface, and the Jewish question. -- The Jolson story. Blackface, white noise: the Jewish jazz singer finds his voice ; Racial masquerade and ethnic assimilation in the transition to talking pictures. -- "Democracy and burnt cork": the end of blackface, the beginning of civil rights. New Deal blackface ; "We could cross these racial lines": Hollywood discovers civil rights ; Conclusion: Abington township.
Local note	Little-303893--305131009533X
General note	"A Centennial book"--P. [iii].
Bibliography note	Filmography: p. 317-321.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-315) and index.
LCCN	95044109
ISBN	0520204077 (alk. paper)
ISBN	9780520204072 (alk. paper)

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Joyner	General Stacks	PN1995.9.B585 R64 1996	✔ Available	Place Hold