Author: Cornell University. Library. President White LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
A collection of riddles focusing on the Old West.
Catalogue of the Historical Library of Andrew Dickson White
Author: Cornell University. Library. President White LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
A collection of riddles focusing on the Old West.
The Un-Americans
Author: Joseph LitvakPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822390841
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
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.” Litvak proposes that sycophancy was (and continues to be) the price exacted for assimilation into mainstream American culture, not just for Jews, but also for homosexuals, immigrants, and other groups deemed threatening to American rectitude. Litvak traces the outlines of comic cosmopolitanism in a series of performances in film and theater and before HUAC, performances by Jewish artists and intellectuals such as Zero Mostel, Judy Holliday, and Abraham Polonsky. At the same time, through an uncompromising analysis of work by informers including Jerome Robbins, Elia Kazan, and Budd Schulberg, he explains the triumph of a stoolpigeon culture that still thrives in the America of the early twenty-first century.
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
Bibliotheca Lindesiana ...
Author: James Ludovic Lindsay Earl of CrawfordPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1302
Book Description
Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Dept. of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 1048
Book Description
Biographie Universelle, Ancienne Et Moderne
Author: The British Library General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1975
Author: British LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
Catalogue of the Goldsmiths' Library of Economic Literature: Printed books to 1800, compiled by Margaret Canney and David Knott.-v.2.Printed books 1801-1850, compiled by Margaret Canney, David Knott and Joan M.Gibbs
Author: Goldsmiths' Library of Economic LiteraturePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 874
Book Description
Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library, 1911-1971
Author: New York Public Library. Research LibrariesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
General Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Dept. of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : fr
Pages : 618
Book Description