16 novembre 2020
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Michael Lipiner et al., « Movie Mensch: An Exploration of Spielberg’s Universalist Jewish-American Sensibility », Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée, ID : 10.4000/books.pulm.5213
Throughout his career, Steven Spielberg has depicted America as a haven for minorities with considerable onscreen patriotic sentiments, while garnering criticism for having often (and conveniently) rewritten history, omitted facts or changed them altogether (Pryce 1997; Mitchell 1998; Gates 1987). In this regard, the story of European-Jewish immigration and successful assimilation woven into the very fabric of the American Dream has been central to Spielberg’s oeuvre, together with the expres...