Containment Culture

by Nadel, Alan; Pease, Donald E.

• ISBN13: 9780822316992
• ISBN10: 0822316994
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-12-01
• Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

Summary

"We are just beginning to grasp the extent to which U. S. culture of the past fifty years has been dominated and guided by Cold War paradigms. "Containment Culture" will add significantly to that growing body of scholarship."-- Barbara Foley, Rutgers University

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction	p. 1
The Straight Story and the Dual Nature	p. 11
Appearance, Containment, and Atomic Power	p. 13
History, Science, and Hiroshima	p. 38
Containment Culture	p. 69
Rhetoric, Sanity, and the Cold War: The Significance of Holden Caulfield's Testimony	p. 71
God's Law and the Wide Screen: The Ten Commandments as Cold War "Epic"	p. 90
Lady and (or) the Tramp: Sexual Containment and the Domestic Playboy	p. 117
Double or Nothing	p. 155
The Invasion of Postmodernism: The Catch-22 of the Bay of Pigs and Liberty Valance	p. 157
The Rules for Free Speech: Speech Act Theory and the Free Speech Movement	p. 204
Two Nations Too	p. 221
My Country Too: Time, Place, and African American Identity in the Work of John A. Williams	p. 223
Race, Rights, Gender, and Personal Narrative: The Archaeology of "Self" in Meridian	p. 245
Coda: Democracy	p. 273
Failed Cultural Narratives: America in the Postwar Era and the Story of Democracy	p. 275
Conclusion	p. 297
Notes	p. 301
Bibliography	p. 315
Index	p. 327
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