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A cycle of crime films in expressionist style, shot in the United States from the 1930s to the 1950s. The large number of Jewish émigrés among the directors of film noir is striking. Their affinity to gloomy, social-critical material goes back to Weimar cinema (Metropolis), and was further intensified by National Socialism and its consequences. With its expressionist aesthetics and high artistic ambition, film noir represented a counterpart to commercial Hollywood productions.Film noir – French for “black film” (in the sense of dark, somber) is derived from the American r oman noi…

Media representation of a Jewish immigrant family in the radio serial  The Rise of the Goldbergs and attained greater popularity from 1949 on as a television sitcom. With its stories of integration and social ascent,  The Goldbergs accompanied two generations of Jewish immigrants on their way in American society. The series struck a chord with a widespread public that favored “ethnically” themed entertainment up until the mid-1950s. The Goldbergs, a Jewish immigrant family, were in the limelight of the radio program between 1929 and 1945 and the television…

Mediale Repräsentation einer jüdischen Einwandererfamilie in der Bronx, die 1929 in der US-amerikanischen Radioserie The Rise of the Goldbergs aufkam und seit 1949 als Sitcom im Fernsehen zu großer Popularität gelangte. Mit ihren Geschichten von Integration und gesellschaftlichem Aufstieg begleiteten The Goldbergs zwei Generationen jüdischer Immigranten auf ihrem Weg in die amerikanische Gesellschaft. Die Serien trafen den Nerv eines breiten Publikums, das bis zur Mitte der 1950er Jahre Unterhaltung entlang »ethnischer« Themen liebte. Im Mittelpunkt der Radiosendung …

Comedy film from the year 1983 by Woody Allen who, as in many of his films, was the screenwriter, director, and lead actor at the same time. In classic documentary style,  Zelig narrates the fictitious life story of the New York Jew Leonard Zelig using archive footage, voice-over commentaries, and interviews. Zelig rose to fame in the 1920s and 1930s thanks to his chameleon-like ability to take on the physical features and personality traits of any male person with whom he comes into contact. The themes of many of Allen…