Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-333), filmography, and index.
Contents
Introduction : transnational Jewish comedy -- I. Berlin : sex, spectacle, and anarchy. 1. From the Jewish "Bad boy" to the "Bad girl" : early comedies, 1914-18 ; 2. Bad girls in the costume epics, 1919-22 ; 3. Bad girls untamed : anarchic/fantastic comedies, 1919-22 -- II. Hollywood : from European sophistication to antifascist screwball. 4. Sex and sophistication : comedies and operettas, 1923-34 ; 5. Pushing the boundaries in the pre-code Hollywood, 1931-34 ; 6. Screwball politics : American populism and European politics, 1935-41 ; 7. Coming out as Jewish : to be or not to be, 1942 -- Epilogue: Twilight of a cosmopolitan, 1943-47.
Note
Online resource; title from online PDF (University of Minnesota Digital Conservancy, viewed August 19, 2020).
