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In the Name of National Security : Hitchcock, Homophobia and the Political Construction of Gender in Postwar America.
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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North Carolina :
Duke University Press,
1996.
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| Colección: | New Americanists.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.