Hester Street - Julia Wagner (BFI Film Classics) Film Studies the pair succeed in infiltrating

the pair succeed in infiltrating El Indio's gang

- Audio commentary by film scholar and critic Kate Rennebohm

substance-induced and otherwise

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Hester Street - Julia Wagner (BFI Film Classics) Film Studies the pair succeed in infiltrating'Hester Street' by Julia Wagner (BFI Film Classics 112 page paperback) Joan Micklin Silver's groundbreaking debut feature film vividly portrays the immigrant experience through the eyes of a young Orthodox Jewish woman who arrives in New York City from Eastern Europe at the end of the nineteenth century. Julia Wagner examines how despite the prejudice Micklin Silver faced, a low budget, black and white, independent production with Yiddish dialogue