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Author:   Daniel Ross Goodman ,  Rabbi Irving (Yitz) Greenberg
Publisher:   University Press of America
Imprint:   Hamilton Books
Dimensions:   Width: 15.30cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 22.00cm
Weight:   0.254kg
ISBN:  

9780761872238

ISBN 10:   076187223
Pages:   162
Publication Date:   24 August 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Foreword Permissions Also by Daniel Ross Goodman Introduction Chapter 1: To the Wonder Chapter 2: Renoir Chapter 3: The End of the Tour Chapter 4: Nebraska Chapter 5: Boyhood Chapter 6: Exodus: Gods and Kings Chapter 7: Ex Machina Chapter 8: Adaptation Chapter 9: Gravity Chapter 10: Magic in the Moonlight Chapter 11: Inside Llewyn Davis Chapter 12: All is Lost Chapter 13: Roger Ebert—In Memorium Chapter 14: Hollywood, the Oscars, and the Missing Modern Jew Chapter 15: The Great Beauty Chapter 16: Grand Budapest Hotel Chapter 17: The Big Short Chapter 18: La La Land Chapter 19: Blue Jasmine Chapter 20: The Wolf of Wall Street Chapter 21: Museum Hours Chapter 22: Life Itself Chapter 23: The Great Gatsby Chapter 24: Tree of Life Chapter 25: The Revenant Bibliography Index of Films Referenced About the Author

Reviews

Goodman invites us into a conversation about film that stimulates the emotions and the intellect. He produces a rich fusion of insights from literary, philosophical, biblical, and rabbinic sources, while keeping the conversation light-hearted and accessible.--Claudia Setzer, Manhattan College This book takes its readers on a fascinating journey through recent Hollywood films that illustrate the deep experiential similarities between cinema and religion in bringing together the heavenly and the human, the sublime and the mundane. The appreciative, but also analytical and critical, treatments of individual movies engage with Jewish and Christian themes and texts, and are punctuated here and there with excurses on the life and legacy of Roger Ebert and the image of Jews in Hollywood film. An enjoyable, informative, and inspiring read for all film-lovers.--Adele Reinhartz, professor and chair, Department of Classics and Religious Studies, University of Ottawa This is a serious book but it is fun to read. On page after page, it surprises us with new insights drawn out of old iconic screen moments. After reading Goodman, you will reverse the old adage. Instead of saying I lost it at the movies, you will say: I found it (vision/divinity/global connectivity) at the movies. Thank God and thank Goodman.--Irving Greenberg, President of the J.J. Greenberg Institute for the Advancement of Jewish Life

Author Information

Daniel Ross Goodman is a writer, rabbi, and scholar from western Massachusetts. He writes on art, film, literature, and sports for the Washington Examiner, and his academic and popular articles have appeared in numerous journals, magazines, and newspapers. He is also the author of the novel A Single Life.

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