Thursday, September 17, 2009
Mamet and Chabon
This Stuart Klawans essay on writer-director David Mamet's 1991 movie Homicide -- about a dogged Jewish police detective investigating a murder that leads to a Jewish secret society -- of course made me think of The Yiddish Policemen's Union, and made me wonder whether Michael Chabon has seen it.
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This is very interesting, but it seems like where Gold could clearly separate his Jewish heritage from his job as a cope, Landsman couldn't because of the alternate universe.
ReplyDeleteAlso, whereas Antisemitism existed in Gold's world, the reverse is true for Landsman's Sitka, the Native Americans--or any outsider--were sneerd upon.