The Jazz Singer (1927.)

Pjevač jazza
Naslov izvornika	The Jazz Singer
Godina izdanja	1927.
Trajanje	89 min.
Država	SAD
Jezik	engleski
Proračun	$422.000
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The Jazz Singer američki je igrani film iz 1927. godine, poznat prije svega kao prvi cjelovečernji film sa sinkroniziranim dijalozima, a koji se često kolokvijalno (i pogrešno) navodi kao prvi zvučni film. Producirao ga je Warner Bros. studio koristeći Vitaphone tehniku snimanja zvuka na ploči, a redatelj je bio Alan Crosland. Radnja se temelji na kazališnom komadu Samsona Raphaelsona, a naslovnu ulogu - židovskog pjevača iz tradicionalne obitelji, koji prkoseći strogom ocu, napušta dom kako bi započeo uspješnu karijeru jazz pjevača - tumačio je Al Jolson, kom je to bila najpoznatija uloga u karijeri. Film je doživio ogroman komercijalni uspjeh te potakao druge filmske studije u Hollywoodu i ostatku svijeta da u svoja ostvarenja ubacuju što više govora i glazbe, označivši time početak kraja ere nijemog filma.

1980. snimljena je istoimena verzija filma u kojoj nastupaju Neil Diamond, Laurence Olivier i Desi Arnaz.

Filmska ekipa

• Al Jolson kao Jakie Rabinowitz (Jack Robin)
• May McAvoy kao Mary Dale
• Warner Oland kao Kantor Rabinowitz
• Yossele Rosenblatt glumi sam sebe
• Eugenie Besserer kao Sara Rabinowitz
• Otto Lederer kao Moisha Yudelson
• Bobby Gordon kao Jakie Rabinowitz (u dobi od 13 godina)
• Richard Tucker kao Harry Lee

Literatura

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Jessel, George (2006 [1943]). So Help Me: The Autobiography of George Jessel. Kessinger. ISBN 1-4286-5975-7 Koszarski, Richard (1994 [1990]). An Evening's Entertainment: The Age of the Silent Feature Picture, 1915–1928. Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-08535-3 Kroll, Jack (1997). "The Movies: They Are The Art Form Of Our Era, A Spectacle That Attracts The Whole World", Newsweek, December 2 (available online). Lhamon, W. T. (1998). Raising Cain: Blackface Performance from Jim Crow to Hip Hop. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-674-74711-9 Low, Rachael (1997 [1971]). The History of the British Film 1918–1929 (The History of British Film, Volume IV). Oxford and New York: Routledge/Taylor & Francis. ISBN 0-415-15649-1 Lusk, Norbert (1927). "'Jazz Singer' Scores a Hit", Los Angeles Times, October 16. Rees, Nigel (1999). Brewer's Famous Quotations: 5000 Quotations and the Stories Behind Them. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. ISBN 0-304-36799-0 Schatz, Thomas (1998 [1989]). The Genius of the System: Hollywood Filmmaking in the Studio Era. London: Faber and Faber. ISBN 0-571-19596-2 Stark, Seymour (2000). Men in Blackface: True Stories of the Minstrel Show. Xlibris. ISBN 0-7388-5735-1 Variety staff (1927). "The Jazz Singer," Variety (available online). Willis, Corin (2005). "Meaning and Value in The Jazz Singer (Alan Crosland, 1927)," in Style And Meaning: Studies In The Detailed Analysis Of Film, ed. John Gibbs and Douglas Pye. Manchester University Press. ISBN 0-7190-6524-0

Vanjske poveznice

• The Jazz Singer promo Vitaphone short
• Al Jolson Society Official Website includes clip from The Jazz Singer of Jolson's first onscreen speech and performance of "Toot, Toot, Tootsie" (follow links: His Work–Films–The Jazz Singer–Toot, Toot, Tootsie)
• Let's Go To The Movies (1948) film clip, with excerpt of "My Mammy" at 2:30; at the Internet Archive
• Lux Radio Theater/The Jazz Singer radio version originally broadcast on August 10, 1936; at the Internet Archive