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The un-Americans : Jews, the blacklist, and stoolpigeon culture / Joseph Litvak.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Litvak, Joseph.
- Series:
- Series Q.
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Series Q
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jews in the motion picture industry--United States.
- Jews in the motion picture industry.
- Jews--United States--Politics and government--20th century.
- Jews.
- Antisemitism--United States--History--20th century.
- Antisemitism.
- United States--Ethnic relations--Political aspects.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (306 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Sycoanalysis : an introduction
- Jew envy
- Petrified laughter : Jews in pictures, 1947
- Collaborators : Schulberg, Kazan, and a face in the crowd
- Comicosmopolitanism : behind television
- Bringing down the house : the blacklist musical
- Coda : cosmopolitan states.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- CC BY-NC-ND
- Description based on print version record; resource not viewed.
- ISBN:
- 9786613064905
- 9781283064903
- 1283064901
- 9780822390848
- 0822390841
- OCLC:
- 492385237
- Publisher Number:
- https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822390848
- Access Restriction:
- Unrestricted online access
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