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Homosexuality in Cold War America - Resistance and the Crisis of Masculinity (Paperback, New)
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Homosexuality in Cold War America - Resistance and the Crisis of Masculinity (Paperback, New)
Series: New Americanists
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Loot Price R579
Discovery Miles 5 790
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Challenging widely held assumptions about postwar gay male culture
and politics, Homosexuality in Cold War America examines how gay
men in the 1950s resisted pressures to remain in the closet. Robert
J. Corber argues that a form of gay male identity emerged in the
1950s that simultaneously drew on and transcended left-wing
opposition to the Cold War cultural and political consensus.
Combining readings of novels, plays, and films of the period with
historical research into the national security state, the growth of
the suburbs, and postwar consumer culture, Corber examines how gay
men resisted the "organization man" model of masculinity that rose
to dominance in the wake of World War II. By exploring the
representation of gay men in film noir, Corber suggests that even
as this Hollywood genre reinforced homophobic stereotypes, it
legitimized the gay male "gaze." He emphasizes how film noir's
introduction of homosexual characters countered the national
"project" to render gay men invisible, and marked a deep subversion
of the Cold War mentality. Corber then considers the work of gay
male writers Tennessee Williams, Gore Vidal, and James Baldwin,
demonstrating how these authors declined to represent homosexuality
as a discrete subculture and instead promoted a model of political
solidarity rooted in the shared experience of oppression.
Homosexuality in Cold War America reveals that the ideological
critique of the dominant culture made by gay male authors of the
1950s laid the foundation for the gay liberation movement of the
following decade.
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