The un-Americans
Subtitle: Jews, the blacklist, and stoolpigeon culture
By: Joseph Litvak
Series: Series Q; Series Q
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9780822344674; 9780822344841
Description: Joseph Litvak shows how Jewish assimilation into American culture during the 'blacklist period' was characterized by demands to be a stoolpigeon, or to become an informer.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-282) and index.
Table of contents: title: Sycoanalysis : an introduction; title: Jew envy; title: Petrified laughter : Jews in pictures, 1947; title: Collaborators : Schulberg, Kazan, and a face in the crowd; title: Comicosmopolitanism : behind television; title: Bringing down the house : the blacklist musical; title: Coda : cosmopolitan states.