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9780822319566

Homosexuality in Cold War America

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  • ISBN13:

    9780822319566

  • ISBN10:

    082231956X

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1997-06-01
  • Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

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""Homosexuality in Cold War America" is an important contribution to our understanding of postwar U.S. culture and a welcome step toward historicizing questions of male subjectivity."--Jay Clayton, Vanderbilt University

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: I'm Really a Queen Myself 1(20)
PART 1 Film Noir and the Political Economy of Cold War Masculinity 21(84)
1 Masculinizing the American Dream: Discourses of Resistance in the Cold War Era
23(32)
2 Resisting the Lure of the Commodity: Laura and the Spectacle of the Gay Male Body
55(24)
3 "Real American History": Crossfire and the Increasing Invisibility of Gay Men in the Cold War Era
79(26)
PART 2 Gay Male Cultural Production in the Cold War Era 105(86)
4 Tennessee Williams and the Politics of the Closet
107(28)
5 Gore Vidal and the Erotics of Masculinity
135(25)
6 A Negative Relation to One's Culture: James Baldwin and the Homophobic Politics of Form
160(31)
Conclusion: The Work of Transformation 191(8)
Notes 199(38)
Index 237

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