Remapping the Jazz Singer from the 1920s to the 1980s
The Jazz Singer (1927), a film based on Samson Raphaelson’s short story, “The Day of Atonement,” published in 1922, and inspired by the life of one of the most successful twentieth century Jewish actors, Al Jolson, played an important role in the film industry, as it anticipated the end of the silen...
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University of Bucharest
2016-12-01
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| Series: | Intersections |
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| Online Access: | http://www.intersections-journal.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Maria-Tirica-article.pdf |