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Mike Nichols. Elaine May, Mel Brooks, and Woody Allen's "New Cabaret": underground Jewish humor and the evolution of the new Hollywood aesthetic
… instigated by “Others.” It provides specific Jewish explanations for the evolution of New Hollywood. It proposes that the American cinematic revolution of the 1960s and 1970s emerged from the cultural disruption caused by Jewish nightclub comedians and their projection of anti-Semitism and …
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All Joking Aside: The Role of Religion in American Jewish Satire
<p>Jewish humor is a well-known, if ill-defined genre. The prevalence and success of Jewish comedians has been a point of pride for American Jews throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. What I undertake in this dissertation is to isolate one particular form of humor-namely satire-and …