Containment Culture : American Narratives, Postmodernism, and the Atomic Age
Alan. Nadel
Bok Engelsk 1995 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | Durham : : Duke University Press, , 1995.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (352 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - CONTENTS; Preface; Introduction; PART I THE STRAIGHT STORY AND THE DUAL NATURE; 1. Appearance, Containment, and Atomic Power; 2. History, Science, and Hiroshima; PART II CONTAINMENT CULTURE; 3. Rhetoric, Sanity, and the Cold War: The Significance of Holden Caulfield's Testimony; 4. God's Law and the Wide Screen: The Ten Commandments as Cold War "Epic"; 5. Lady and (or) the Tramp: Sexual Containment and the Domestic Playboy; PART III DOUBLE OR NOTHING; 6. The Invasion of Postmodernism: The Catch-22 of the Bay of Pigs and Liberty Valance. - 7. The Rules for Free Speech: Speech Act Theory and the Free Speech MovementPART IV TWO NATIONS TOO; 8. My Country Too: Time, Place, and African American Identity in the Work of John A. Williams; 9. Race, Rights, Gender, and Personal Narrative: The Archaeology of "Self" in Meridian; CODA DEMOCRACY; 10. Failed Cultural Narratives: America in the Postwar Era and the Story of Democracy; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index. - Alan Nadel provides a unique analysis of the rise of American postmodernism by viewing it as a breakdown in Cold War cultural narratives of containment. These narratives, which embodied an American postwar foreign policy charged with checking the spread of Communism, also operated, Nadel argues, within a wide spectrum of cultural life in the United States to contain atomic secrets, sexual license, gender roles, nuclear energy, and artistic expression. Because these narratives were deployed in films, books, and magazines at a time when American culture was for the first time able to dominate gl
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| ISBN | 0822316994. - 082231701X
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