Odets, Clifford,

Beschreibung

de amerikanischer Drehbuchautor und Schauspieler

en American playwright, screenwriter, and actor (1906–1963)

de Dramatiker

de Schriftsteller

de Drehbuchautor

de Regisseur

de Schauspieler

Thema von

Ethics and ethnicity in the plays of Arthur Miller.

Elmer Rice; liberation, and the great ethnic question.

Yiddish origins and Jewish-American transformations.

Paddy Chayefsky's Jews and Jewish dialogues.

The Americanization of the Holocaust on stage and screen.

The Jew in stand-up comedy.

Lillian Hellman, "the first Jewish nun on Prytania Street".

The "mental comedies" of Saul Bellow.

Mel Brooks and the cinema of exhaustion.

Yiddish theater and American theater.

Woody Allen; the failure of the therapeutic.

Clifford Odets and the Jewish context.

Some intersections of Jews, music and theater.

Fanny Brice and Sophie Tucker; blending the particular with the universal.

The vanishing act; a typology of the Jew in the contemporary American film.

Neil Simon's Jewish-style comedies.

Jules Feiffer and the comedy of disenchantment.