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Gravity Fails - The Comic Jewish Shaping of Modern America (Hardcover, New)
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Gravity Fails - The Comic Jewish Shaping of Modern America (Hardcover, New)
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The comedic work of the children of modern Jewish immigrants
overturned the prevailing languages and imageries with which an
Anglocentric United States had traditionally represented and
expanded itself. In ^IGravity Fails: The Comic Jewish Shaping of
Modern America^R, James D. Bloom approaches these developments by
first surveying this transformation as it affected literature,
entertainment, commerce, and politics, and then offers sharply
focused chapters that look at changes in sexual candor, reactions
to the Holocaust, and critiques of race. Indeed, the personae
discussed here pioneered unprecedented candor toward and scrutiny
about sex and violence, and no other book delves as deeply or as
widely among art forms, media, and levels of cultural hierarchy.
Including considerations of the work of such diverse artists as
Woody Allen, Mel Brooks, Lenny Bruce, Gilda Radner, Philip Roth,
Jerry Seinfeld, and Stephen Sondheim, Gravity Fails provides a
unique, penetrating, and hilarious look at a major force in the
progress of American culture.
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