Vincent Brooks
Biographic Data
| ID | 4046944 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vincent Brooks |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vincent |
| FAMILY NAME | Brooks |
| SIGNATURE | BROOKS V |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
On Kozlovsky-Golan’s The Death Penaltyin American Cinema
On Kozlovsky-Golan’s The Death Penalty in American Cinema“Spare Me!” Vincent Brook The Death Penalty in American Cinema: Criminality and Retribution in Hollywood Film. By Yvonne Kozlovsky-Golan. London: I.B. Tauris, 2014. 288 pp., ISBN 978-178-076333-0 (hc). US $95.00. Yvonne Kozlovsky-Golan’s The Death Penalty in American Cinema is not a total loss, either from a Jewish or cinema studies standpoint. Though making no claim to a predominantly Jewi…
On Casty’s Robert Rossen
On Casty’s Robert Rossen: The Films and Politics of a Blacklisted Idealist Vincent Brook Robert Rossen: The Films and Politics of a Blacklisted Idealist. By Alan Casty. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2012. 276 pp., ISBN 978-0-7864-6981-9 (pbk). US $45. Alan Casty is on a mission—an important (if not particularly Jewish) one, in more ways than he may have been aware. Casty’s declared purpose in Robert Rossen: The Films and Politics of a Blacklisted I…
Sidney Lumet, Political Jew
Jews have been drawn disproportionately progressive political and cultural movements-whether substitute for religion, an extension of it, or self-interested and empathetic response oppression-since gaining entry into Western mainstream society in the late eighteenth century.1 Expressing this activist orientation in the United States, Jewish-American filmmakers also have played seminal role in movies that deal with issues: whether forthrightly, in…
Convergent Ethnicity and the Neo-platoon Show
Corresponding to and partially driven by economic and technological convergence in the postnetwork era, American television programming in the past decade has produced a form of ethno-racial convergence in an array of prominent dramatic series such as Boston Public, Lost, Heroes, Grey's Anatomy, and Ugly Betty. Featuring multiracial and multigendered casts, prime-time soap narrative structures, and, most significant, interracial romance, these po…
Convergent Ethnicity and the Neo-platoon Show
Corresponding to and partially driven by economic and technological convergence in the postnetwork era, American television programming in the past decade has produced a form of ethno-racial convergence in an array of prominent dramatic series such as Boston Public, Lost, Heroes, Grey's Anatomy, and Ugly Betty. Featuring multiracial and multigendered casts, prime-time soap narrative structures, and, most significant, interracial romance, these po…
Convergent Ethnicity and the Neo-platoon Show
Corresponding to and partially driven by economic and technological convergence in the postnetwork era, American television programming in the past decade has produced a form of ethno-racial convergence in an array of prominent dramatic series such as Boston Public, Lost, Heroes, Grey's Anatomy, and Ugly Betty. Featuring multiracial and multigendered casts, prime-time soap narrative structures, and, most significant, interracial romance, these po…
Sidney Lumet, Political Jew
Jews have been drawn disproportionately progressive political and cultural movements-whether substitute for religion, an extension of it, or self-interested and empathetic response oppression-since gaining entry into Western mainstream society in the late eighteenth century.1 Expressing this activist orientation in the United States, Jewish-American filmmakers also have played seminal role in movies that deal with issues: whether forthrightly, in…
On Casty’s Robert Rossen
On Casty’s Robert Rossen: The Films and Politics of a Blacklisted Idealist Vincent Brook Robert Rossen: The Films and Politics of a Blacklisted Idealist. By Alan Casty. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2012. 276 pp., ISBN 978-0-7864-6981-9 (pbk). US $45. Alan Casty is on a mission—an important (if not particularly Jewish) one, in more ways than he may have been aware. Casty’s declared purpose in Robert Rossen: The Films and Politics of a Blacklisted I…
On Kozlovsky-Golan’s The Death Penaltyin American Cinema
On Kozlovsky-Golan’s The Death Penalty in American Cinema“Spare Me!” Vincent Brook The Death Penalty in American Cinema: Criminality and Retribution in Hollywood Film. By Yvonne Kozlovsky-Golan. London: I.B. Tauris, 2014. 288 pp., ISBN 978-178-076333-0 (hc). US $95.00. Yvonne Kozlovsky-Golan’s The Death Penalty in American Cinema is not a total loss, either from a Jewish or cinema studies standpoint. Though making no claim to a predominantly Jewi…
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