The
Jazz Singer
Edited, with an Introduction by Robert L. Carringer
Tino Balio, Series Editor
Wisconsin/Warner Bros. screenplay
series
The Jazz Singer is an American cultural classic
The Jazz Singer was the first feature length film with spoken dialog as part
of the dramatic action. Set in the 1920s, it deals with the elemental
conflicts underlying a precise historical moment for the first-generation
Jew in America—sacred versus profane, Jew versus Gentile,
ascetic versus libertine, deprivation versus economic promise,
immobility versus displacement.
Wisconsin/Warner Bros. screenplay
series
Tino Balio, series editor
Robert L. Carringer, Associate Professor of English and Cinema Studies
at the University of Illinois at Ubrana-Champaign, has written
numerous articles on film and, with Barry Sabath, The Film
Career of Ernest Lubitsch. Tino Balio, Professor in
the Department of Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin–Madison,
is the author of United
Artists: The Company Built by the Stars, United Artists: The Company
That Changed the Film Industry, and the editor of The American Film Industryas well as
the 22 volume Wisconsin/Warner
Bros. Screenplay series, all published by the University
of Wisconsin Press. He directed the Wisconsin Center for Film
and Theatre Research from 1966 to 1882.
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December 2005
LC: 78-053295 PN
228 pp. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 28 illus.
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