| Description |
1 online resource (274 pages) |
| Series |
New Americanists |
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New Americanists.
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| Contents |
Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 DRAPED IN THE AMERICAN FLAG Cold War Liberals and the Resistance to Theory; 2 RECONSTRUCTING HOMOSEXUALITY Hitchcock and the Homoerotics of Spectatorial Pleasure; 3 RESISTING HISTORY Rear Window and the Limits of the Postwar Settlement; 4 THE FANTASY OF THE MATERNAL VOICE The Man Who Knew Too Much and the Eroticization of Motherhood; 5 "THERE ARE MANY SUCH STORIES" Vertigo and the Repression of Historical Knowledge; 6 HITCHCOCK THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS Psycho and the Breakdown of the Social; Conclusion; Notes; Index |
| Summary |
In the Name of National Security exposes the ways in which the films of Alfred Hitchcock, in conjunction with liberal intellectuals and political figures of the 1950s, fostered homophobia so as to politicize issues of gender in the United States. As Corber shows, throughout the 1950s a cast of mind known as the Cold War consensus prevailed in the United States. Promoted by Cold War liberals--that is, liberals who wanted to perserve the legacies of the New Deal but also wished to separate liberalism from a Communist-dominated cultural politics--this consensus was grounded in the |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Hitchcock, Alfred, 1899-1980 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Hitchcock, Alfred, 1899-1980.
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| SUBJECT |
Hitchcock, Alfred, 1899-1980 fast |
| Subject |
Motion pictures -- Political aspects -- United States
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Homosexuality in motion pictures.
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Homosexuality in motion pictures
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Motion pictures -- Political aspects
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Pease, Donald E
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| LC no. |
93019816 |
| ISBN |
9780822382232 |
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0822382237 |
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9780822313809 |
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0822313804 |
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