Jewish Identity and Film
FT221
| TUE |
| 12 |
| OCT |
Join Searle for a stimulating lunchtime lecture series on Jews and the legitimacy of their
representation on the Big Screen. Expect some lively debate!
• The Classic (Jewish?) Hollywood Film: Screening: The Apartment + others
• Building Jewish cinema audiences Film extracts: Train Leaving Jerusalem, Jolson Story, The Odd Couple, Schindler’s list
• Effects Research: How to be popular and influence people!
Film Extracts: Crossfire, Gentlemen’s Agreement The Jazz Singer, The Life of Emile
Zola, Confessions of a Nazi Spy, Mr Skeffington, Adam’s Rib, American in Paris
• Hollywood Entertainment and Jewish autobiography: case studies John Schlesinger, Nathaniel West, Budd Schulberg, Woody Allen, Neil Simon, Arthur Miller, Nora Ephron, Billy WilderFilm extracts: Annie Hall, Day of the Locust, The Odd Couple, Barefoot in the
Park, Sunday Bloody Sunday, Death, Heartburn, One Two Three
• Autobiographical film & the Jewish point of view
- Screening: Lift, All White in Barking, All By Myself, Sperm Donor Dad, My Architect, American Splendor
• Jewish Histories: memory, landscape and image:
- Screening: Tango of Slaves, Night and Fog, L’Esprit de L’Escalier, Leaving the Table, The Settlers, Berlin Jerusalem.
• Images and their meanings: Case study: Hulton photojournalist slides
• Archetypes: the Jewish Woman
- Adam’s Rib, Bells Are Ringing Funny Girl, The Owl and Pussy Cat, Hello Dolly,Manhattan, Heartburn, Mary Tyler Moore Show
• Archetypes: the Jewish Male
- The Goodbye Girl, Annie Hall, Pi, The Pawnbroker, Sunday Bloody Sunday, Fellow Traveller, An Education, Fortune Cookie, Death of a Salesman, Adam’s Rib, Goodbye Columbus, Enemies: A Love Story
• Archetypes: Jewish Rites of Passage:
The Barmitzvah Boy, Jewish Wedding, , The Evacuees, Goodbye Columbus, Knowledge is the Beginning, The Search, Sunday Bloody Sunday, Europa Europa
Course Dates
- Tue 12th October 10
- Tue 19th October 10
- Tue 26th October 10
- Tue 2nd November 10
- Tue 9th November 10
- Tue 16th November 10
- Tue 23rd November 10
- Tue 30th November 10
- Tue 7th December 10
- Tue 14th December 10
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