Homosexuality in Cold War America : Resistance and the Crisis of Masculinity


Robert J. Corber
Bok Engelsk 1997 · Electronic books.
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North Carolina : : Duke University Press, , 1997.
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Description based upon print version of record.. - CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; Introduction: I'm Really a Queen Myself; PART 1 Film Noir and the Political Economy of Cold War Masculinity; 1 Masculinizing the American Dream: Discourses of Resistance in the Cold War Era; 2 Resisting the Lure of the Commodity: Laura and the Spectacle of the Gay Male Body; 3 "Real American History": Crossfire and the Increasing Invisibility of Gay Men in the Cold War Era; PART 2 Gay Male Cultural Production in the Cold War Era; 4 Tennessee Williams and the Politics of the Closet; 5 Gore Vidal and the Erotics of Masculinity. - 6 A Negative Relation to One's Culture: James Baldwin and the Homophobic Politics of FormConclusion: The Work of Transformation; Notes; Index. - Challenging widely held assumptions about postwar gay male culture and politics, Homosexuality in Cold War America examines how gay men in the 1950s resisted pressures to remain in the closet. Robert J. Corber argues that a form of gay male identity emerged in the 1950s that simultaneously drew on and transcended left-wing opposition to the Cold War cultural and political consensus. Combining readings of novels, plays, and films of the period with historical research into the national security state, the growth of the suburbs, and postwar consumer culture, Corber examines how gay m
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082231956X. - 0822319640. - 9780822319641

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