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9780822390848
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Erscheint auch als Litvak, Joseph The un-Americans
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305.892/407309045
Keywords:
Jews in the motion picture industry
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Jews Politics and government 20th century
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Antisemitism History 20th century
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Performing arts
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USA
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Juden
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Filmwirtschaft
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Politik
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Antisemitismus
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Geschichte 1900-2000
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Performing Arts / Film / History & Criticism
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United States Ethnic relations
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Political aspects
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Jews in the motion picture industry
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United States
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Jews
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United States
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Politics and government
;
20th century
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Antisemitism
;
United States
;
History
;
20th century
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United States
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Ethnic relations
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Political aspects
;
Electronic books
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Electronic books
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History.
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History
;
Electronic books
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
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USA
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Film
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Judenbild
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USA
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Antisemitismus
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Geschichte 1900-2000
Abstract:
In a bold rethinking of the Hollywood blacklist and McCarthyite America, Joseph Litvak 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. While many scholars have noted the anti-Semitism underlying the House Un-American Activities Committee's (HUAC's) anti-Communism, Litvak draws on the work of Theodor W. Adorno, Hannah Arendt, Alain Badiou, and Max Horkheimer to show how the committee conflated Jewishness with what he calls "comic cosmopolitanism," an intolerably seductive happiness, centered in Hollywood and New York, in show business and intellectual circles. He maintains that HUAC took the comic irreverence of the "uncooperative" witnesses as a crime against an American identity based on self-repudiation and the willingness to "name names"
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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.
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