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The Naked Communist - Cold War Modernism and the Politics of Popular Culture (Paperback, New)
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The Naked Communist - Cold War Modernism and the Politics of Popular Culture (Paperback, New)
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The Naked Communist argues that the political ideologies of
modernity were fundamentally determined by four basic figures: the
world, the enemy, the secret, and the catastrophe. While the
"world" names the totality that functioned as the ultimate horizon
of modern political imagination, the three other figures define the
necessary limits of this totality by reflecting on the limits of
representation. The book highlights the enduring presence of these
figures in the modern imagination through detailed analysis of a
concrete historical example: American anti-Communist politics of
the 1950s. Its primary objective is to describe the internal
mechanisms of what we could call an anti- Communist "aesthetic
ideology." The book thus traces the way anti-Communist popular
culture emerged in the discourse of Cold War liberalism as a
political symptom of modernism. Based on a discursive analysis of
American anti-Communist politics, the book presents parallel
readings of modernism and popular fiction from the 1950s (nuclear
holocaust novels, spy novels, and popular political novels) in
order to show that, despite the radical separation of the two
cultural fields, they both participated in a common ideological
program.
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