From the acclaimed author of American Comics and Jewish Comedy comes a sweeping and entertaining narrative that details the rise and enduring grip of horror in American literature, cinema, and, ultimately, culture-from the taut, terrifying stories o...Lasīt vairāk
When ten-year-old Matt finds a mysterious cell phone that reveals aliens have invaded his school, he teams up with his friend Marcela and the extraterrestrial lunch lady to save the planet. A kid who just wanted a cell phone ends up being...Lasīt vairāk
From the acclaimed author of American Comics and Jewish Comedy comes a sweeping and entertaining narrative that details the rise and enduring grip of horror in American literature, cinema, and, ultimately, culturefrom the taut, terr...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 28-Mar-2023, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Yale University Press, ISBN-13: 9780300244274)
A spirited dive into the life and career of a performer, writer, and director who dominated twentieth-century American comedy Mel Brooks, born Melvin Kaminsky in Brooklyn in 1926, is one of the great comic voices of the twentieth cen...Lasīt vairāk
The sweeping story of cartoons, comic strips, and graphic novels and their hold on the American imagination. The Walking DeadAmerican ComicsDark KnightsWatchmenwhoseAmerican ComicsAmerican SplendorPeanutsZap Comix...Lasīt vairāk
This is the sweeping story of cartoons, comic strips, and graphic novels and their century-long hold on the American imagination.Starting with the Civil War and cartoonist Thomas Nast, cr...Lasīt vairāk
This is the sweeping story of cartoons, comic strips, and graphic novels and their century-long hold on the American imagination.Starting with the Civil War and cartoonist Thomas Nast, creator of t...Lasīt vairāk
This is the sweeping story of cartoons, comic strips, and graphic novels and their century-long hold on the American imagination.Starting with the Civil War and cartoonist Thomas Nast, cr...Lasīt vairāk
The sweeping story of cartoons, comic strips, and graphic novels and their century-long hold on the American imagination. Starting with the Civil War and cartoonist Thomas Nast, creator of the lasting images of Uncle Sam and Santa Claus, author Jere...Lasīt vairāk
Finalist for the National Jewish Book AwardDauber 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 Daub...Lasīt vairāk
A celebrated scholar presents an analysis of Jewish humor that traces its origins and development from biblical times through the age of Twitter, exploring how Jewish comedy has dealt with persecution, assimilation and diaspora while explaining the e...Lasīt vairāk
In a major work of scholarship both erudite and very funny, Jeremy Dauber traces the origins of Jewish comedy and its development from Biblical times to the age of Twitter. Organizing his book thematically into what he calls the seven strands of J...Lasīt vairāk
A comprehensive portrait of the culturally influential writer whose stories inspired Fiddler on the Roof traces his impoverished childhood, the financial struggles that inspired his literary career, his internationally mourned death and his c...Lasīt vairāk
The military experience offers a domain of inquiry about the human condition that can often be instructive about other life spheres as well. Accordingly, this book covers a wide spectrum of study that can help us to better understand the lives of mil...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 07-Jan-2011, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Yale University Press, ISBN-13: 9780300141757)
This original and extensively researched book is the first to offer a sustained analysis of Yiddish writers, readers, and texts in the early modern period. Focusing closely on Yiddish literary masterworks in diverse genres, Jeremy Dauber examines the...Lasīt vairāk
In the 1970s and 1980s Jewish cartoonists such as Will Eisner were some of the first artists to use the graphic novel as a way to explore their ethnicity. Although similar to their pop culture counterpart, the comic book, graphic novels presente...Lasīt vairāk
What does Yiddish have to do with German? It is a question that has perplexed Jews and Germans alike for centuries. The relationship between the two languages - both originating from a common source and from a common location - has often become a me...Lasīt vairāk
Samantha Baskind, Erin McGlothlin, Ranen Omer-Sherman, Samantha Baskind, Laurence Roth, Ranen Omer-Sherman, Jeremy Dauber, Josh Lambert, Roxanne Harde, Lisa Mulman...
(Izdošanas datums: 29-Oct-2008, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Rutgers University Press, ISBN-13: 9780813543673)
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In the 1970s and 1980s Jewish cartoonists such as Will Eisner were some of the first artists to use the graphic novel as a way to explore their ethnicity. Although similar to their pop culture counterpart, the comic book, graphic novels prese...Lasīt vairāk
Joel Berkowitz, Joel Berkowitz, Jeremy Dauber, Jeremy Dauber
Sērija : SUNY series in Modern Jewish Literature and Culture
(Izdošanas datums: 03-Jul-2006, Hardback, Izdevniecība: State University of New York Press, ISBN-13: 9780791467794)
Introduces readers to comic and tragic masterpieces spanning 150 years of Yiddish drama. Offering snapshots of a pivotal era in which the Jews of Europe made the transition from a traditional to a more modern world, the Yiddish plays t...Lasīt vairāk
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The facsimiles of Yiddish documents and title pages reproduced in this volume, their captions, and the accompanying introductory essays are a succinct introduction to Yiddish culture. They cover religion, education and daily life, politics, Yiddish...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
(Izdošanas datums: 02-Jun-2004, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Stanford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780804749015)
Antonio’s Devils deals both historically and theoretically with the origins of modern Hebrew and Yiddish literature by tracing the progress of a few remarkable writers who, for various reasons and in various ways, cited Scriptu...Lasīt vairāk
