Generations of Jewish directors and the struggle for America's soul : Wyler, Lumet, and Spielberg / Sam B. Girgus.
Girgus, Sam B., 1941- author.
2021
PN1998.2 .G57 2021eb
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Title Generations of Jewish directors and the struggle for America's soul : Wyler, Lumet, and Spielberg / Sam B. Girgus.
Author Girgus, Sam B., 1941- author.
ISBN 3030760316 electronic book
9783030760311 (electronic bk.)
9783030760304
3030760308
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-76031-1
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
Copyright ©2021
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xvii, 270 pages : illustrations (black and white)).
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-030-76031-1 doi
Call Number PN1998.2 .G57 2021eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 791.430233092273
791.43684
Summary From generation to generation, three outstanding American Jewish directorsWilliam Wyler, Sidney Lumet, and Steven Spielberg--advance a tradition of Jewish writers, artists, and leaders who propagate the ethical basis of the American Idea and Creed. They strive to renew the American spirit by insisting that America must live up to its values and ideals. These directors accentuate the ethical responsibility for the other as a basis of the American soul and a source for strengthening American liberal democracy. In the manner of the jeremiad, their films challenge America to achieve a liberal democratic culture for all people by becoming more inclusive and by modernizing the American Idea. Following an introduction that relates aspects of modern ethical thought to the search for Americas soul, the book divides into three sections. The Wyler section focuses on the directors social vision of a changing America. The Lumet section views his films as dramatizing Lumets dynamic and aggressive social and ethical conscience. The Spielberg section tracks his films as a movement toward American redemption and renewal that aspires to realize Lincolns vision of America as the hope of the world. The directors, among many others, perpetuate a "New Covenant that advocates change and renewal in the American experience. .
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Series Renewing the American narrative.
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Introduction: Jewish Directors and the "New Covenant"-Wyler, Lumet, and Spielberg
Part I: William Wyler's America
Bogart to Bogart: A Changing America from Dead End to The Desperate Hours
Wyler: Surveying the Changing American Scene
Part II: Sidney Lumet: Conscience and Democracy
Jew Grit: The New York Frontier and the Making of a Moralist
Filming "The Crisis of American Civic Liberalism"
Part III: Steven Spielberg: Reform, Redemption, and Films of American Renewal
Spielberg, America's Soul, and the New Covenant
American Renewal and Democracy: Battling Slavery, Racism, and Fascism
Epilogue: The Jeremiad, the Myth of America, and the New Covenant.

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