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| Document Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Roel van den Oever |
| ISBN: | 9781137274052 1137274050 |
| OCLC Number: | 784125786 |
| Description: | 209 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | Momism and the lavender scare -- Oppositional reading and The grotto -- Narrative closure and Suddenly last summer -- Character engagement and Psycho -- Laughter/ridicule and Portnoy's complaint. |
| Responsibility: | Roel van den Oever. |
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"This book is a brilliant meditation on homophobia, misogyny, narrative, and their interrelations in cold-war American culture." - Henry Abelove, F.O. Matthiessen Visiting Professor of Gender and Sexuality, Harvard University "This highly readable book offers an excellent recapitulaton of an American nightmare. The McCarthy era institutionalised a harsh oppression of gay people. Social paranoia translated into cultural repression. Van den Oever shows in his amazing analyses of well-chosen novels and the Hitchcock-movie Psycho how sexual paranoia pervaded American culture until the sixties. His interpretations are original, compelling, and totally convincing. An amazing piece of work." - Maaike Meijer, professor of Gender Studies, Maastricht University Read more...
