The Un-Americans
Jews, the Blacklist, and Stoolpigeon Culture
1st Edition
Published on 25. November 2009
304 pages
978-0-8223-9084-8 (ISBN)
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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.
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Duke University Press
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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.
Content
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
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
