Litvak / Barale / Goldberg The Un-Americans

Jews, the Blacklist, and Stoolpigeon Culture
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9084-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 304 Seiten

Reihe: Series Q

Cultural study of Cold War film and theater that considers how Jewish assimilation into American culture during the blacklist period was characterized by a demand to be a stoolpigeon, or to become an informer.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Litvak, Joseph

Barale, Michèle Aina

Goldberg, Jonathan

Moon, Michael

Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies: Homosexualität, LGBTQ+
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Semiotik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

1. Sycoanalysis: An Introduction 1

2. Jew Envy 50

3. Petrified Laughter: Jews in Pictures, 1947 72

4. Collaborators: Schulberg, Kazan, and A Face in the the Crowd 105

5. Comicosmopolitanism: Behind Television 153

6. Bringing Down the House: The Blacklist Musical 182

Coda. Cosmopolitan States 223

Notes 229

Bibliography 271

Index 283

Über Autor(innen)

Joseph Litvak is Professor of English at Tufts University. He is the author of Strange Gourmets: Sophistication, Theory, and the Novel, also published by Duke University Press, and Caught in the Act: Theatricality in the Nineteenth-Century English Novel.