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Autore: | Redding Arthur F. <1964-> |
Titolo: | Turncoats, traitors, and fellow travelers : culture and politics of the early Cold War / / Arthur Redding |
Pubblicazione: | Jackson, : University Press of Mississippi, c2008 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (196 p.) |
Disciplina: | 810.9/3582825 |
Soggetto topico: | American literature - 20th century - History and criticism |
Cold War in literature | |
Politics in literature | |
Politics and literature - United States - History - 20th century | |
Cold War in motion pictures | |
Politics in motion pictures | |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-175) and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Cultural fronts -- Closet, coup, and Cold War : F.O. Matthiessen's From the heart of Europe -- What's black and white and red all over? the Cold War and the geopolitics of race -- What it takes to be a man : masculinity, deviance, and sexuality -- The dreaded voyage into the world : nomadic ethics -- Frontier mythographies : savagery and civilization in John Ford. |
Sommario/riassunto: | The Cold War was unique in the way films, books, television shows, colleges and universities, and practices of everyday life were enlisted to create American political consensus. This coercion fostered a seemingly hegemonic, nationally unified perspective devoted to spreading a capitalist, socially conservative notion of freedom throughout the world to fight Communism. In Turncoats, Traitors, and Fellow Travelers: Culture and Politics of the Early Cold War , Arthur Redding traces the historical contours of this manufactured consent by considering the ways in which authors, playwrights, and dir |
Titolo autorizzato: | Turncoats, traitors, and fellow travelers |
ISBN: | 1-282-48576-8 |
9786612485763 | |
1-60473-326-8 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910810998603321 |
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