Sam B Girgus
Biographic Data
| ID | 5685091 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sam B Girgus |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sam B |
| FAMILY NAME | Girgus |
| SIGNATURE | GIRGUS S B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Vanderbilt University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Imitation Nation: Red, White, and Blackface in Early and Antebellum US LiteratureStranger America: A Narrative Ethics of Exclusion
Anxiety over race, ethnicity, culture, and identity erupts at the core of the American experience in separate books by Jason Richards and Josh Toth. Richards and Toth proceed in dramatically different ways in their studies of this American crisis of being and meaning. Richards focuses tightly on the relationship of race, ethnicity, and culture with American identity while Toth incorporates those issues within a broader philosophical examination o…
Nothing Sacred: Violence, Time and Meaning in the Cinema of Possibilities
Hemingway's disenchantment with the idea of the sacred as expressed in A Farewell to Arms became a defining aspect of the modern experience including in some Hollywood films such as Nothing Sacred and Twentieth Century. An attempt for a return to the sacred can be found in the philosophies of such figures as Levinas and Kristeva, among others. Cinema can help in this movement to a return to the sacred through film's ability to manipulate time
Seeing Fictions in Film: The Epistemology of Movies Dark Borders: Film Noir and American Citizenship
Book Review| December 01 2012 Seeing Fictions in Film: The Epistemology of Movies Dark Borders: Film Noir and American Citizenship Seeing Fictions in Film: The Epistemology of Movies. By Wilson, George M.. New York: Oxford Univ. Press. 2011. viii, 220 pp. Cloth, $84.95; paper, $23.95.Dark Borders: Film Noir and American Citizenship. By Auerbach, Jonathan. Durham, NC: Duke Univ. Press. x, 268 pp.Paper, $23.95. Sam B. Girgus Sam B. Girgus Search fo…
The Dance of the Comedians: The People, the President, and the Performance of Political Standup Comedy in America
Journal Article The Dance of the Comedians: The People, the President, and the Performance of Political Standup Comedy in America Get access The Dance of the Comedians: The People, the President, and the Performance of Political Standup Comedy in America. By Peter M. Robinson. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2010. xiv, 257 pp. $34.95, ISBN978-1-55849-733-7.) Sam B. Girgus Sam B. Girgus Vanderbilt University Nashville, Tennessee sam.b…
A Very Dangerous Citizen: Abraham Lincoln Polonsky and the Hollywood Left
For many, Abraham Polonsky symbolizes the lost lives and careers of a generation that underwent anticommunist persecution during the Cold War. Polonsky was the brilliant Jewish intellectual, writer, and director who was acclaimed for his work on two classic independent films, Body and Soul (1947) and Force of Evil (1948). Like many others, he was blacklisted, banished, and abandoned. His early achievement, however, generally has been taken as a s…
Jewish Gangsters of Modern Literature
Book Review| March 01 2001 Jewish Gangsters of Modern Literature By Rachel Rubin. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press. 2000. xii, 189 pp.$29.95. Sam B. Girgus Sam B. Girgus Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2001) 73 (1): 216–217. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-73-1-216 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Sam B. Girgus; Jewish Gangsters of Modern Literature. American …
Celluloid Soldiers: The Warner Bros. Campaign against Nazism
Journal Article Celluloid Soldiers: The Warner Bros. Campaign against Nazism. By Michael E. Birdwell. (New York: New York University Press, 1999. xxii, 266 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-8147-1338-6.) Get access Sam B. Girgus Sam B. Girgus Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 1, June 2000, Pages 273–274, https://doi.org/10.2307/256802…
Hollywood Renaissance: The Cinema of Democracy in the Era of Ford, Capra, and Kazan
Journal Article Hollywood Renaissance: The Cinema of Democracy in the Era of Ford, Capra, and Kazan. By Sam B. Girgus. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. xii, 258 pp. Cloth, $59.95, ISBN 0-521-62388-X. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-521-62552-1.) Get access Steven J. Ross Steven J. Ross University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, …
Kemp, Anthony. The Estrangement of the Past: A Study in the Origins of Modern Historical Consciousness
Desire and the Political Unconscious in American Literature: Eros and Ideology
FOX-Genovese, Elizabeth. Feminism Without Illusions: A Critique of Individualism
Oedipus Texts: Freud, Feminism and American Studies
Desire and the Political Unconscious in American Literature: Eros and Ideology
The White Monk: An Essay on Dostoevsky and Melville
Creative Awakening: The Jewish Presence in Twentieth-Century American Literature, 1900-1940s
Series Foreword by Leonard W. Dobb Foreword by Jacob Rader Marcus Preface Introduction The Apprentice Years: 1900-1919 Fiction of the 1920s The Depression Years: The 1930s The Jew at War: The 1940s Jewish Anti-Semitism: The Problem of Self-Hate Conclusion Notes Bibliographical Note Index
Religious Freedom or Real Estate: The Problem of Ideology in Interdisciplinary Studies
The New Covenant: Jewish Writers and the American Idea
Girgus defines the American idea as the set of values, beliefs, and traditions of democracy, equality, and republicanism and argues that writers of the New Covenant tradition challenged society to live up to its own imperatives for individual and cultural renewal. Abraham Cahan, Anzi Yezierska, Henry Roth, Johanna Kaplan, Philip Roth, Norman Mailer, Saul Bellow, and E. L. Doctorow formed a new poetics to articulate a modern version of the myth an…
The American Self: Myth, Ideology, and Popular Culture
Journal Article The American Self: Myth, Ideology, and Popular Culture Get access The American Self: Myth, Ideology, and Popular Culture. Edited by Girgus Sam B.. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1981. x + 248 pp. Notes, index. $20.00.) Richard C. Poulsen Richard C. Poulsen Brigham Young University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 13, Issue 3, July 1982, Pag…
Individual Conscience and Mass Culture in Mark Twain
Conscience in Connecticut: Civilization and Its Discontents in Twain's Camelot
M ARK TWAIN was prisoner of his conscience and of his confusion about the conscience. Thus, Howard Mumford Jones describes Twain as fuzzy in his attempts to describe the function of conscience.' Many others also have commented on the victimization of Twain throughout his life by his guilty conscience. According to Justin Kaplan, Twain was a lifelong seeker. He indicates that so casual an acquaintance as Mrs. James Fields noted that 'his whole lif…
Howells and Marcuse: A Forecast of the One-Dimensional Age
The Dance of the Comedians: The People, the President, and the Performance of Political Standup Comedy in America
Journal Article The Dance of the Comedians: The People, the President, and the Performance of Political Standup Comedy in America Get access The Dance of the Comedians: The People, the President, and the Performance of Political Standup Comedy in America. By Peter M. Robinson. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2010. xiv, 257 pp. $34.95, ISBN978-1-55849-733-7.) Sam B. Girgus Sam B. Girgus Vanderbilt University Nashville, Tennessee sam.b…
Howells and Marcuse: A Forecast of the One-Dimensional Age
Conscience in Connecticut: Civilization and Its Discontents in Twain's Camelot
M ARK TWAIN was prisoner of his conscience and of his confusion about the conscience. Thus, Howard Mumford Jones describes Twain as fuzzy in his attempts to describe the function of conscience.' Many others also have commented on the victimization of Twain throughout his life by his guilty conscience. According to Justin Kaplan, Twain was a lifelong seeker. He indicates that so casual an acquaintance as Mrs. James Fields noted that 'his whole lif…
Individual Conscience and Mass Culture in Mark Twain
The American Self: Myth, Ideology, and Popular Culture
Journal Article The American Self: Myth, Ideology, and Popular Culture Get access The American Self: Myth, Ideology, and Popular Culture. Edited by Girgus Sam B.. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1981. x + 248 pp. Notes, index. $20.00.) Richard C. Poulsen Richard C. Poulsen Brigham Young University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 13, Issue 3, July 1982, Pag…
The New Covenant: Jewish Writers and the American Idea
Girgus defines the American idea as the set of values, beliefs, and traditions of democracy, equality, and republicanism and argues that writers of the New Covenant tradition challenged society to live up to its own imperatives for individual and cultural renewal. Abraham Cahan, Anzi Yezierska, Henry Roth, Johanna Kaplan, Philip Roth, Norman Mailer, Saul Bellow, and E. L. Doctorow formed a new poetics to articulate a modern version of the myth an…
Religious Freedom or Real Estate: The Problem of Ideology in Interdisciplinary Studies
Creative Awakening: The Jewish Presence in Twentieth-Century American Literature, 1900-1940s
Series Foreword by Leonard W. Dobb Foreword by Jacob Rader Marcus Preface Introduction The Apprentice Years: 1900-1919 Fiction of the 1920s The Depression Years: The 1930s The Jew at War: The 1940s Jewish Anti-Semitism: The Problem of Self-Hate Conclusion Notes Bibliographical Note Index
Desire and the Political Unconscious in American Literature: Eros and Ideology
The White Monk: An Essay on Dostoevsky and Melville
FOX-Genovese, Elizabeth. Feminism Without Illusions: A Critique of Individualism
Oedipus Texts: Freud, Feminism and American Studies
Kemp, Anthony. The Estrangement of the Past: A Study in the Origins of Modern Historical Consciousness
Desire and the Political Unconscious in American Literature: Eros and Ideology
Celluloid Soldiers: The Warner Bros. Campaign against Nazism
Journal Article Celluloid Soldiers: The Warner Bros. Campaign against Nazism. By Michael E. Birdwell. (New York: New York University Press, 1999. xxii, 266 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-8147-1338-6.) Get access Sam B. Girgus Sam B. Girgus Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 1, June 2000, Pages 273–274, https://doi.org/10.2307/256802…
Hollywood Renaissance: The Cinema of Democracy in the Era of Ford, Capra, and Kazan
Journal Article Hollywood Renaissance: The Cinema of Democracy in the Era of Ford, Capra, and Kazan. By Sam B. Girgus. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. xii, 258 pp. Cloth, $59.95, ISBN 0-521-62388-X. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-521-62552-1.) Get access Steven J. Ross Steven J. Ross University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, …
Jewish Gangsters of Modern Literature
Book Review| March 01 2001 Jewish Gangsters of Modern Literature By Rachel Rubin. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press. 2000. xii, 189 pp.$29.95. Sam B. Girgus Sam B. Girgus Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2001) 73 (1): 216–217. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-73-1-216 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Sam B. Girgus; Jewish Gangsters of Modern Literature. American …
A Very Dangerous Citizen: Abraham Lincoln Polonsky and the Hollywood Left
For many, Abraham Polonsky symbolizes the lost lives and careers of a generation that underwent anticommunist persecution during the Cold War. Polonsky was the brilliant Jewish intellectual, writer, and director who was acclaimed for his work on two classic independent films, Body and Soul (1947) and Force of Evil (1948). Like many others, he was blacklisted, banished, and abandoned. His early achievement, however, generally has been taken as a s…
The Dance of the Comedians: The People, the President, and the Performance of Political Standup Comedy in America
Journal Article The Dance of the Comedians: The People, the President, and the Performance of Political Standup Comedy in America Get access The Dance of the Comedians: The People, the President, and the Performance of Political Standup Comedy in America. By Peter M. Robinson. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2010. xiv, 257 pp. $34.95, ISBN978-1-55849-733-7.) Sam B. Girgus Sam B. Girgus Vanderbilt University Nashville, Tennessee sam.b…
Seeing Fictions in Film: The Epistemology of Movies Dark Borders: Film Noir and American Citizenship
Book Review| December 01 2012 Seeing Fictions in Film: The Epistemology of Movies Dark Borders: Film Noir and American Citizenship Seeing Fictions in Film: The Epistemology of Movies. By Wilson, George M.. New York: Oxford Univ. Press. 2011. viii, 220 pp. Cloth, $84.95; paper, $23.95.Dark Borders: Film Noir and American Citizenship. By Auerbach, Jonathan. Durham, NC: Duke Univ. Press. x, 268 pp.Paper, $23.95. Sam B. Girgus Sam B. Girgus Search fo…
Nothing Sacred: Violence, Time and Meaning in the Cinema of Possibilities
Hemingway's disenchantment with the idea of the sacred as expressed in A Farewell to Arms became a defining aspect of the modern experience including in some Hollywood films such as Nothing Sacred and Twentieth Century. An attempt for a return to the sacred can be found in the philosophies of such figures as Levinas and Kristeva, among others. Cinema can help in this movement to a return to the sacred through film's ability to manipulate time
Imitation Nation: Red, White, and Blackface in Early and Antebellum US LiteratureStranger America: A Narrative Ethics of Exclusion
Anxiety over race, ethnicity, culture, and identity erupts at the core of the American experience in separate books by Jason Richards and Josh Toth. Richards and Toth proceed in dramatically different ways in their studies of this American crisis of being and meaning. Richards focuses tightly on the relationship of race, ethnicity, and culture with American identity while Toth incorporates those issues within a broader philosophical examination o…
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