Robert J Corber

In the Name of National Security

Hitchcock, Homophobia, and the Political Construction of Gender in Postwar America

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Produktbeschreibung

"Corber's argument is at once clear and rich. He makes clear that Hitchcock's films engage fundamental issues of sexuality and gender identity, and he also makes clear that these issues are in dialogue with the process of ideological struggle, including the mobilization of homophobia, in which Cold War Liberalism won its powerful place in the 1950s. The richness comes in the contexts Corber provides from that struggle and in the lucid imagination with which he reconceptualizes very famous films in relation to those contexts."--Jonathan Arac

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Oktober 1993
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 215mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 435g
• ISBN-13: 9780822313861
• ISBN-10: 0822313863
• Artikelnr.: 21524315

Autorenporträt

Robert J. Corber

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
1. Draped in the American Flag: Cold War Liberals and the Resistance to
Theory 19
2. Reconstructing Homosexuality: Hitchcock and the Homoerotics of
Spectatorial Pleasure 56
3. Resisting History: Rear Window and the Limits of the Postwar Settlement
83
4. The Fantasy of the Maternal Voice: The Man Who Knew Too Much and the
Eroticization of Motherhood 113
5. "There Are Many Such Stories": Vertigo and the Repression of Historical
Knowledge 154
6. Hitchcock Through the Looking Glass: Psycho and the Breakdown of the
Social 185
Conclusion 219
Notes 227
Index 257