Hooray for Hollywood?' American cinema, Hollywood Jews and the 'Jewish question' during the Nazi era
Title' Hooray for Hollywood?' American cinema, Hollywood Jews and the 'Jewish question' during the Nazi era
Author
Call number296/0053
Object number10727b
Place of publicationSydney, New South Wales, Australia
PublisherMandelbaum Publishing
Year of publication
2004
Physical descriptionpp137-163
MaterialArticle
NotesArticle from 'Anafim : proceedings of the Australasian Jewish Studies Forum held at Mandelbaum House, University of Sydney, 8-9 February 2004'pp137-163
Description
In complete contrast to the silent era, American cinema of the Nazi epoch, 1933-45 saw the virtual disappearance of Jews from the screen,- that is Hollywood's output became cleansed of Jews. Typical of this transformation were two of the very few films of the period that could have had anti-semitism as their core. They were "The life of Emile Zola" and "Confessions of a Nazi spy", The few Jewish characters had their Jewish identity totally subjugated