Jewish Identity and Film: Fact or Fiction?

Join Searle for a stimulating lunchtime lecture series on Jews and the legitimacy of their representation on the Big Screen. Expect some lively debate!

• The Classic (Jewish?) Hollywood Screening: The Apartment & others

• Building Jewish cinema audiences Film extracts: Train Leaving Jerusalem, Jolson Story, The Odd Couple, Schindler’s list

• Effects Research: How to be popular and influence people! Film Extracts: Crossfire, Gentlemen’s Agreement, The Jazz Singer, The Life of Emile Zola, Confessions of a Nazi Spy, Mr Skeffington, Adam’s Rib, American in Paris

• Hollywood Entertainment and Jewish autobiography: case studies: John Schlesinger, Nathaniel West, Budd Schulberg, Woody Allen, Neil Simon, Arthur Miller, Nora Ephron, Billy Wilder Film extracts: Annie Hall, Day of the Locust, The Odd Couple, Barefoot in the Park, Sunday Bloody Sunday, Death, Heartburn, One, Two Three

• Autobiographical film & the Jewish point of view Screening: Lift, All White in Barking, All By Myself, Sperm Donor Dad, My Architect, American Splendor

• Jewish Histories: memory, landscape and image Screening: Tango of Slaves, Night and Fog, L’Esprit de L’Escalier, Leaving the Table, The Settlers, Berlin Jerusalem.

• Images and their meanings Case study: Hulton photojournalist slides

• Archetypes: the Jewish Woman Adam’s Rib, Bells Are Ringing Funny Girl, The Owl and Pussy Cat, Hello Dolly,Manhattan, Heartburn, Mary Tyler Moore Show

• Archetypes: the Jewish Male The Goodbye Girl, Annie Hall, Pi, The Pawnbroker, Sunday Bloody Sunday, Fellow Traveller, An Education, Fortune Cookie, Death of a Salesman, Adam’s Rib, Goodbye Columbus, Enemies: A Love Story

• Archetypes: Jewish Rites of Passage The Barmitzvah Boy, Jewish Wedding,The Evacuees, Goodbye Columbus, Knowledge is the Beginning, The Search, Sunday Bloody sunday, Europa Europa

With Searle Kochberg.

Searle is a senior lecturer in film studies at the University of Portsmouth. He is contributor to the key textbook "