The Jazz Singer

By Alfred Abraham Cohn

The Jazz Singer was the first feature length film with spoken dialog as part of the dramatic action. Set in the 1920s, it deals with the elemental conflicts underlying a precise historical moment for the first-generation Jew in America--sacred versus profane, Jew versus Gentile, ascetic versus libertine, deprivation versus economic promise, immobility versus displacement.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299076644
• ISBN13: 9780299076641
• Release Date: May 1979
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.6" x 8.3"