Roth and celebrity / edited by Aimee Pozorski.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Roth and celebrity: an introduction / Aimee Pozorski -- Paying attention to the man behind the curtain: Philip Roth and the dynamics of written and unwritten celebrity / Derek Royal -- Philip Roth's Lover's quarrel / James Bloom -- Philip Roth and film / Ira Nadel -- Philip Roth: death and celebrity / Miriam Jaffe Foger -- "Into thin air": Roth and celebrity selfhood / Debra Shostak -- Twilight of the superheroes: Philip Roth, celebrity, and the end of print culture / Matthew Shipe -- "And now ... the feature attraction": Infamy, Vitality, and Performance in Sabbath's Theater / Maggie McKinley -- double consciousness and the Jewish heart of darkness: the counterlife and Operation Shylock / Brett Ashley Kaplan -- Dis/simulation within metafiction: hiding and disguising as literary compulsion in the fiction of Philip Roth / Nigel Rodenhurst -- Fanfare for agoraphobia / Mark Shechner -- Contributors' biographies.