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Gravity Fails: The Comic Jewish Shaping of Modern America Hardcover - 2003

by James D. Bloom


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The comedic work of the children of modern Jewish immigrants overturned the prevailing languages and imageries with which an Anglocentric United States had traditionally represented and expanded itself. In IGravity Fails: The Comic Jewish Shaping of Modern America R, James D. Bloom approaches these developments by first surveying this transformation as it affected literature, entertainment, commerce, and politics, and then offers sharply focused chapters that look at changes in sexual candor, reactions to the Holocaust, and critiques of race. Indeed, the personae discussed here pioneered unprecedented candor toward and scrutiny about sex and violence, and no other book delves as deeply or as widely among art forms, media, and levels of cultural hierarchy. Including considerations of the work of such diverse artists as Woody Allen, Mel Brooks, Lenny Bruce, Gilda Radner, Philip Roth, Jerry Seinfeld, and Stephen Sondheim, Gravity Fails provides a unique, penetrating, and hilarious look at a major force in the progress of American culture.

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  • Title Gravity Fails: The Comic Jewish Shaping of Modern America
  • Author James D. Bloom
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition 1st Edition; 1st
  • Pages 216
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, Westport, Connecticut, U.S.A.
  • Date 2003-06-30
  • Features Dust Cover
  • ISBN 9780275977207 / 027597720X
  • Weight 1.04 lbs (0.47 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.56 x 6.44 x 0.85 in (24.28 x 16.36 x 2.16 cm)
  • Themes
    • Interdisciplinary Studies: Jewish Studies
  • Library of Congress subjects American wit and humor - History and, Jewish comedians - United States - History -
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2002037062
  • Dewey Decimal Code 792.702

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Citations

  • Choice, 01/01/2004, Page 891

About the author

JAMES D. BLOOM is Professor of English and Director of American Studies and the Self-Directed Inquiry Program at Muhlenberg College, where he teaches writing and literature. He is the author of The Stock of Available Reality, Left Letters, and Literary Bent, and his shorter work has appeared in such publications as The New York Times Book Review, American Literature, and Style.
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