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Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction: The Hollywood Question 1 Hava Tirosh-Samuelson, Daniel Bernardi, and Murray Pomerance A Forgotten Masterpiece: Edward Sloman’s His People 19 Lester D. Friedman Jewish Immigrant Directors and Their Impact on Hollywood 35 Catherine Portuges “A Rotten Bunch of Vile People with No Respect for Anything Beyond the Making of Money”: Joseph Breen, the Hollywood Production Code, and Institutionalized Anti-Semitism in Hollywood 53 Wheeler Winston Dixon Stardom, Intermarriage, and Consumption in the 1950s: The DebbieEddie -Liz Scandal 73 Sumiko Higashi Hats off for George Cukor! 91 William Rothman Notes on Sontag and “Jewish Moral Seriousness” in American Movies 111 Sarah Kozloff viii Contents The Good German?: Oskar Schindler and the Movies, 1951–1993 125 Peter KrÄmer Representing Atrocity: September 11 through the Holocaust Lens 141 David Sterritt David Mamet’s Homicide: In or Out? 159 Lucy Fischer Boy-Man Schlemiels and Super-Nebishes: Adam Sandler and Ben Stiller 173 Vincent Brook Who Was Buddy Love?: Screen Performance and Jewish Experience 193 Murray Pomerance Assimilating Streisand: When Too Much Is Not Enough 211 Vivian Sobchack Works Cited 229 Contributors 245 Index 251 ...