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<p>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 Committeeâs (HUACâs) 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 rectit

Author

Litvak, Joseph, Joseph Litvak, Michele Ainabarale

Publisher

Duke University Press Books

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9780822344674

Subjects

History, Sociology, Literary Criticism