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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung In a rethinking of the Hollywood blacklist and McCarthyite America! this book reveals a political regime that did not end with the 1950s or even with the Cold War: a regime of compulsory sycophancy! in which the good citizen is an informer! ready to denounce anyone who will not play the part of the earnest! patriotic American. 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
