Jews, Cinema and Public Life in Interwar Britain

• Main Author: Toffell, Gil (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Motion pictures-History.; Judaism and culture.; Ethnology-Europe.; World War, 1939-1945.; Film History.; Jewish Cultural Studies.; British Culture.; History of World War II and the Holocaust.

This book investigates a Jewish orientation to film culture in interwar Britain. It explores how pleasure, politics and communal solidarity intermingled in the cinemas of Jewish neighbourhoods, and how film was seen as a vessel through which Jewish communal concerns might be carried to a wider publi...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. The Spaces and Places of Jewish Cinema Culture
• 3. Films of Jewish Interest
• 4. The Public Lives of Jewish Stars
• 5. The Jews Behind the Camera
• 6. Jewish Defence
• 7. Epilogue - The Decline of a Jewish Cinema Culture.