In the name of national security : Hitchcock, homophobia, and the political construction of gender in postwar America / Robert J. Corber.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Corber, Robert J., 1958-

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

New Americanists.

New Americanists

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hitchcock, Alfred, 1899-1980--Criticism and interpretation.

Hitchcock, Alfred.

Hitchcock, Alfred, 1899-1980.

Motion pictures--Political aspects--United States.

Motion pictures.

Homosexuality in motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 260 pages)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 1993.

Language Note:

English

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

Contents:

Draped in the American flag : Cold War liberals and the resistance to theory

Reconstructing homosexuality : Hitchcock and the homoerotics of spectatorial pleasure

Resisting history : Rear window and the limits of postwar settlement

The fantasy of the maternal voice : The Man who knew too much and the erotization of motherhood

"There are many such stories" : Vertigo and the repression of historical knowledge

Hitchcock through the looking glass : Psycho and the breakdown of the social.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-256) and index.

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9786613062628

9781283062626

1283062623

9780822382232

0822382237

OCLC:

220950233