Sean Sidky
Biographic Data
| ID | 4789537 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sean Sidky |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sean |
| FAMILY NAME | Sidky |
| SIGNATURE | SIDKY S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indiana University Bloomington |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Critique Beyond Judgment
This essay offers a set of strategies for utilizing the words of survivors and of witnesses to genocide in the classroom. Including the voices of survivors and victims in our classroom conversations about genocide, its impact, representation, and the possibilities for its prevention is crucial to an ethical and wholistic pedagogy of genocide. Discussion of these events in the classroom often finds us confronting questions from students about trut…
Chaim Potok and the Holocaust
This article investigates the scholarly treatment of the place and function of Holocaust in Chaim Potok’s novels The Chosen and The Promise. Tracing a reception history of Potok’s work in the academy, this article argues that previous studies of Potok’s novels have relegated the Holocaust to a background historical event that informs the internal religious and ideological conflicts of the novels. Reading the two novels together, this article argu…
Funny Man
Reviewed by: Funny Man: Mel Brooks by Patrick McGilligan Sean Sidky (bio) Funny Man: Mel Brooks. By Patrick McGilligan. New York: HarperCollins, 2019. 640pp., ISBN 978-0062560995 (hc), US $40.00. Though it has been fifteen years since his last film, it is hard to underestimate the influence of Mel Brooks on the landscape of comedic film in the United States. Brooks’s reputation precedes him, and it is clear from the opening line of Funny Man: Mel…
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Chaim Potok and the Holocaust
This article investigates the scholarly treatment of the place and function of Holocaust in Chaim Potok’s novels The Chosen and The Promise. Tracing a reception history of Potok’s work in the academy, this article argues that previous studies of Potok’s novels have relegated the Holocaust to a background historical event that informs the internal religious and ideological conflicts of the novels. Reading the two novels together, this article argu…
Funny Man
Reviewed by: Funny Man: Mel Brooks by Patrick McGilligan Sean Sidky (bio) Funny Man: Mel Brooks. By Patrick McGilligan. New York: HarperCollins, 2019. 640pp., ISBN 978-0062560995 (hc), US $40.00. Though it has been fifteen years since his last film, it is hard to underestimate the influence of Mel Brooks on the landscape of comedic film in the United States. Brooks’s reputation precedes him, and it is clear from the opening line of Funny Man: Mel…
Critique Beyond Judgment
This essay offers a set of strategies for utilizing the words of survivors and of witnesses to genocide in the classroom. Including the voices of survivors and victims in our classroom conversations about genocide, its impact, representation, and the possibilities for its prevention is crucial to an ethical and wholistic pedagogy of genocide. Discussion of these events in the classroom often finds us confronting questions from students about trut…
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