{"id":22211,"date":"2019-01-09T12:39:43","date_gmt":"2019-01-09T17:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=22211"},"modified":"2019-01-09T12:39:43","modified_gmt":"2019-01-09T17:39:43","slug":"the-jazz-singer-screening-2019-jan-13-7-p-m","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/event\/the-jazz-singer-screening-2019-jan-13-7-p-m\/","title":{"rendered":"The Jazz Singer screening (2019-Jan-13 @ 7 p.m.)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong>Dryden<\/strong> will screen <strong>The Jazz Singer<\/strong> (Alan Crosland, U.S. 1927, 88 min., 35mm) as part of the L'chaim: Celebrating Jewish Life series. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Best known as the first big hit feature-length \"talkie\" with a synchronized music score, singing, and speech, the film is also a rarity in early Hollywood&mdash;it features a Jewish protagonist. Al Jolson stars as Jakie Rabinowitz, a young Jewish man who runs away from his devout family because they reject his desire to perform popular music. He becomes a successful jazz singer under the Americanized name Jack Robin, but he longs for reconciliation with his family. It has been argued that Jolson's controversial performance in blackface&mdash;a common practice at the time&mdash;symbolizes and complicates the central theme of a Jewish man presenting himself as a white gentile, pointing to the \"duplicity and ethnic hybridity within American identity.\" The Jazz Singer was nominated for an Oscar for Best Writing at the first Academy Awards in 1929.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <em>[source: <a HREF=\"https:\/\/www.eastman.org\/event\/film-screenings-special-events\/jazz-singer\">George Eastman Museum calendar<\/a>, 2019-Jan-7]<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dryden will screen The Jazz Singer (Alan Crosland, U.S. 1927, 88 min., 35mm) as part of the L'chaim: Celebrating Jewish Life series. Best known as the first big hit feature-length \"talkie\" with a synchronized music score, singing, and speech, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/event\/the-jazz-singer-screening-2019-jan-13-7-p-m\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[3310],"class_list":["post-22211","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","hentry","tribe_events_cat-jayceland-2019-jan-10","cat_jayceland-2019-jan-10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/22211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/22211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22254,"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/22211\/revisions\/22254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22211"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=22211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}