Death of a Jewish American Princess
Death of a Jewish American Princess

Author: Shirley Frondorf

Publisher: Villard

Published: 2013-07-10

Total Pages: 361

ISBN-13: 0307831167

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

In 1982, a sensational murder trial in Phoenix, Arizona, reverberated throughout the legal community. Restaurateur Steven Steinberg, who killed his wife by stabbing her 26 times, was acquitted; his legal defense portrayed the victim as an overpowering "Jewish American Princess" whose excesses may have provoked her violent end. Examining the structure of the defense's case, Frondorf, an attorney who was previously a psychiatric social worker, follows the theme that made Elana Steinberg the villain, instead of the victim, of the piece. The defense's forensic presentation, bolstered by testimony from psychiatrists, maintained that Steinberg committed the crime while sleepwalking, an abnormality allegedly brought on by the intemperate spending of his wife. Frondorf recreates the trial whose outcome scarred the tightly knit Jewish community of Phoenix.

Love, Sometimes
Love, Sometimes

Author: Barbara Rose Brooker

Publisher: Post Hill Press

Published: 2020-01-28

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 1642934135

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

After publishing many books, and many failed TV opportunities, Bette Roseman finally signs a network contract for a TV series based on her novel, The Viagra Diaries, and dreams of a hit show. But when WC Network changes her protagonist’s age from sixty to twenty-something, Bette angrily confronts Network CEO Joshua Bitterman. She demands that her protagonist maintain her original age, but he insists the public “wants young.” After betrayal, intrigue, bartering with the multi-million-dollar network, the impassioned Bette finds herself in the middle of a high-stakes Hollywood legal court battle. Wanting to make deeper connection with her feelings, writing, and her two adult daughters, she begins to explore her past and her subconscious for her truths.

Anyone Can Write
Anyone Can Write

Author: Barbara Rose Brooker

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2003-09-30

Total Pages: 269

ISBN-13: 1465317600

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Anyone Can Write Is For Every Writer. Everyone has a story! Anyone can write and publish a book. This book is for every writer at every age and every genre. The most ordinary incident, recollection, dream can develop into a novel, a movie, a short story. Use your life experiences, and write! ANYONE CAN WRITE /WRITING AEROBICS/is an anecdotal book about the author's process and experiences with agents, publishers and process. The writing aerobics are a step by step guide into the beginning, middle and end. The author will take you from an idea into a premise and table of contents and logline and storyboard and all elements of craft. These simple aerobics enable you to get started, help you to develop your idea into a structure and finally show you how to get your work published.

The Jew in American Cinema
The Jew in American Cinema

Author: Patricia Erens

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 1988-08-22

Total Pages: 478

ISBN-13: 9780253204936

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Placing cinematic representations of the "Jew" within their historical context, Bartov demonstrates the powerful political, social, and cultural impact of these images on popular attitudes. He argues that these representations generally fall into four categories: the "Jew" as perpetrator, as victim, as hero, and as anti-hero. Examples range from film's early days to the present, from Europe, Israel, and the United States.

Follow My Footprints
Follow My Footprints

Author: Sylvia Barack Fishman

Publisher: UPNE

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 532

ISBN-13: 9780874515831

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This anthology focuses on women in Jewish fiction and presents a vivid panorama of Jewish life in the United States over the past one hundred years.

The Chai-Light Zone
The Chai-Light Zone

Author: David DeAngelo

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2024-07-11

Total Pages: 141

ISBN-13:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The Twilight Zone is remembered as a science fiction television series that reflected the uneasiness of Cold War America. Its creator, Rod Serling, was a secular Jew who fought in World War II and returned stateside to see moral problems at home, like racism and the potential for technology to rob us of our humanity. The Twilight Zone was Serling’s attempt to influence mainstream culture in an ethically positive direction. His moral compass, which shaped his writing on the series, is entangled with his brand of cultural Judaism. By examining a range of episodes, the authors of this volume bring this Jewish moral influence out from the twilight and into the full light of day.

The Death of Meaning
The Death of Meaning

Author: George V. Zito

Publisher: Praeger

Published: 1993-09-21

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Zito argues that although meanings change with time, at the end of the 20th century we are witnessing not a change in meanings, but the demise of meaning itself. He presents evidence of the ever decreasing use of word language, upon which meaning is predicated, and the increase in iconographic impacts (Macintosh and television, for example); the routinization of ritual; the efforts to control information (as during the Gulf War); and the ideological competition among groups to dominate definitions of social situations by the use of oversimplified rhetorics. Zito pays particular attention to language, employing empirical data with classical and contemporary theoretical perspectives to argue that as the meanings of language change, the relations among persons change, and vice versa. Recommended for scholars of sociology and language.

Jewish Comedy: A Serious History
Jewish Comedy: A Serious History

Author: Jeremy Dauber

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2017-10-31

Total Pages: 198

ISBN-13: 0393247880

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Finalist for the National Jewish Book Award “Dauber deftly surveys the whole recorded history of Jewish humour.” —Economist In a major work of scholarship that explores the funny side of some very serious business (and vice versa), Jeremy Dauber examines the origins of Jewish comedy and its development from biblical times to the age of Twitter. Organizing Jewish comedy into “seven strands”—including the satirical, the witty, and the vulgar—he traces the ways Jewish comedy has mirrored, and sometimes even shaped, the course of Jewish history. Dauber also explores the classic works of such masters of Jewish comedy as Sholem Aleichem, Isaac Babel, Franz Kafka, the Marx Brothers, Woody Allen, Joan Rivers, Philip Roth, Mel Brooks, Sarah Silverman, Jon Stewart, and Larry David, among many others.

Something Ain't Kosher Here
Something Ain't Kosher Here

Author: Vincent Brook

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 9780813532110

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

In this humorous work, Brook explores the cultural significance of the recentunprecedented explosion in "Jewish" sitcoms.

Standing Up, Speaking Out
Standing Up, Speaking Out

Author: Matthew R. Meier

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2016-10-14

Total Pages: 285

ISBN-13: 1317328949

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

In recent decades, some of the most celebrated and culturally influential American oratorical performances have come not from political leaders or religious visionaries, but from stand-up comics. Even though comedy and satire have been addressed by rhetorical scholarship in recent decades, little attention has been paid to stand-up. This collection is an attempt to further cultivate the growing conversation about stand-up comedy from the perspective of the rhetorical tradition. It brings together literatures from rhetorical, cultural, and humor studies to provide a unique exploration of stand-up comedy that both argues on behalf of the form’s capacity for social change and attempts to draw attention to a series of otherwise unrecognized rhetors who have made significant contributions to public culture through comedy.