Author: Vincent Brook

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Michael Renov is professor of cinema and media studies and serves as vice dean for Academic Affairs at the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California. He is the author of Hollywood’s Wartime Woman: Representation and Ideology and The Subject of Documentary, editor of Theorizing Documentary, and coeditor of Resolutions: Contemporary Video Practices, Collecting Visible Evidence, The SAGE Handbook of Film Studies, and Cinema’s Alchemist: The Films of Péter Forgács .Vincent Brook teaches media studies at UCLA, California State University, Los Angeles, and Loyola Marymount University. He has published numerous scholarly articles and six books, including four dealing with Jews and Hollywood: Something Ain’t Kosher Here: The Rise of the “Jewish” Sitcom, You Should See Yourself: Jewish Identity in Postmodern American Culture, Driven to Darkness: Jewish Émigré Directors and the Rise of Film Noir, and Woody on Rye: Jewishness in the Films and Plays of Woody Allen.




9 Ebooks by Vincent Brook

Vincent Brook & Michael Renov: From Shtetl to Stardom
The influence of Jews in American entertainment from the early days of Hollywood to the present has proved an endlessly fascinating and controversial topic, for Jews and non-Jews alike. From Shtetl t …
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Michael Renov & Vincent Brook: From Shtetl to Stardom
The influence of Jews in American entertainment from the early days of Hollywood to the present has proved an endlessly fascinating and controversial topic, for Jews and non-Jews alike. From Shtetl t …
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Michael Locke: Silver Lake Chronicles
Situated between Los Feliz and Echo Park a few miles from downtown Los Angeles, Silver Lake thrives as a perennially avant-garde and enchanting enclave. From mansion builders and movie stars to bohem …
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€19.87
Vincent Brook & Michael Locke: Silver Lake Bohemia
Since the early 1900s, Silver Lake has been a magnet for iconoclastic writers, architects and political activists. Famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright, who designed the Hollyhock House for socialist a …
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€16.68
Vincent Brook & Marat Grinberg: Woody on Rye
Although Woody Allen’s films have received extensive attention from scholars and critics, no book has focused exclusively on Jewishness in his work, particularly that of the late 1990s and beyond. In …
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€38.67
Vincent Brook: ‘You Should See Yourself’
The past few decades have seen a remarkable surge in Jewish influences on American culture. Entertainers and artists such as Jerry Seinfeld, Adam Sandler, Allegra Goodman, and Tony Kushner have heral …
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€49.94
Vincent Brook: Driven to Darkness
From its earliest days, the American film industry has attracted European artists. With the rise of Hitler, filmmakers of conscience in Germany and other countries, particularly those of Jewish origi …
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€53.53
Vincent Brook: Land of Smoke and Mirrors
Unlike the more forthrightly mythic origins of other urban centers think Rome via Romulus and Remus or Mexico City via the god Huitzilopochtli Los Angeles emerged from a smoke-and-mirrors process tha …
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€53.78
Denise Mann: Wired TV
This collection looks at the post network television industry s heady experiments with new forms of interactive storytelling or wired TV that took place from 2005 to 2010 as the networks responded to …
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€56.44