Rice, Elmer,

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Elmar Rice

Elmer Leopold Rice

Elmer L. Rice

E. L. Reizenstein

Elmer L. Reizenstein

Elmer Reizenstein

Elmer Leopold Reizenstein

Beschreibung

de US-amerikanischer Dramatiker

en American playwright (1892–1967)

de Schriftsteller

de Regisseur

de Dramatiker

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.