LEADER 04771nam 2200973 a 450 001 9910820690403321 005 20230120055711.0 010 $a0-8232-4559-4 010 $a0-8232-5253-1 010 $a0-8232-5035-0 024 7 $a10.1515/9780823245598 035 $a(CKB)2670000000275476 035 $a(EBL)3239758 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000756417 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11440224 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000756417 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10750301 035 $a(PQKB)11642700 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000124823 035 $a(OCoLC)820632016 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse19490 035 $a(DE-B1597)555040 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780823245598 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3239758 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10611574 035 $a(OCoLC)923764049 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4704523 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL818159 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3239758 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC2121288 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4704523 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000275476 100 $a20120717d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe naked communist $eCold War modernism and the politics of popular culture /$fRoland Ve?gso? 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew York $cFordham University Press$d2013 215 $a1 online resource (255 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8232-4557-8 311 $a0-8232-4556-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aPart I. Anti-Communist Politics -- The Aesthetic Unconscious -- Anti-Communist Politics and the Limits of Representation -- The Enemy, the Secret, and the Catastrophe -- Anti-Communist Aesthetic Ideology -- Part II. Anti-Communist Fiction -- One World : Nuclear Holocausts -- Two Worlds : Stolen Secrets -- Three Worlds : Global Enemies. 330 $aThe Naked Communist argues that the political ideologies of modernity were fundamentally determined by four basic figures: the world, the enemy, the secret, and the catastrophe. While the ?world? names the totality that functioned as the ultimate horizon of modern political imagination, the three other figures define the necessary limits of this totality by reflecting on the limits of representation. The book highlights the enduring presence of these figures in the modern imagination through detailed analysis of a concrete historical example: American anti-Communist politics of the 1950's. Its primary objective is to describe the internal mechanisms of what we could call an anti- Communist ?aesthetic ideology.? The book thus traces the way anti-Communist popular culture emerged in the discourse of Cold War liberalism as a political symptom of modernism. Based on a discursive analysis of American anti-Communist politics, the book presents parallel readings of modernism and popular fiction from the 1950's (nuclear holocaust novels, spy novels, and popular political novels) in order to show that, despite the radical separation of the two cultural fields, they both participated in a common ideological program. 606 $aAnti-communist movements$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aAnti-communist movements$zUnited States$xPhilosophy 606 $aCold War$xPolitical aspects$zUnited States 606 $aPopular culture$xPolitical aspects$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aAesthetics$xPolitical aspects$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aAnti-communist movements in literature 606 $aCold War in literature 606 $aAmerican literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 607 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y1945-1989 607 $aUnited States$xIntellectual life$y20th century 610 $aAesthetic Ideology. 610 $aAnti-Communism. 610 $aCatastrophe. 610 $aCold War. 610 $aEnemy. 610 $aModernism. 610 $aPopular fiction. 610 $aSecrecy. 615 0$aAnti-communist movements$xHistory 615 0$aAnti-communist movements$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aCold War$xPolitical aspects 615 0$aPopular culture$xPolitical aspects$xHistory 615 0$aAesthetics$xPolitical aspects$xHistory 615 0$aAnti-communist movements in literature. 615 0$aCold War in literature. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a973.91 676 $a809.9112 700 $aVe?gso?$b Roland$01049864 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910820690403321 996 $aThe naked communist$93995552 997 $aUNINA