Vincent Brook is an adjunct professor in film and television at California State University and Pierce College in Los Angeles. He has also worked as a film editor and screenwriter and published a number of articles in noted film journals.
"By offering a savvy and sophisticated history of how television
has showcased Jewish characters, Vincent Brook manages to
illuminate both the permutations of Jewish status in pop culture
and the openness of an inescapable medium to ethnic persistence. As
a result, Something Ain't Kosher Here is a compulsively readable
book."
*Dept. of American Studies, Brandeis University*
"This is rigorous, passionate, readable television criticism."
*author of Comic Visions: Television Comedy and American
Culture*
This is rigorous, passionate, readable television criticism.
*author of Comic Visions: Television Comedy and American
Culture*
By offering a savvy and sophisticated history of how television has
showcased Jewish characters, Vincent Brook manages to illuminate
both the permutations of Jewish status in pop culture and the
openness of an inescapable medium to ethnic persistence. As a
result, Something AinÆt Kosher Here is a compulsively readable
book.
*Department of American Studies, Brandeis University*
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