A Not So Foreign Affair
Subtitle: Fascism, Sexuality, and the Cultural Rhetoric of American Democracy
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: May 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9780822326847
Subjects: American studies; Cultural studies; Gay & Lesbian studies; Semiology; Rhetoric; National socialism and motion pictures; 20th Century Literature - History And Criticism; Fascism; Sociology; Social Science; Political aspects; USA; National socialism in motion p; Film & Video - General; General; Film & Television Studies; Gay & Lesbian Studies/Queer Th; Sociology - General; Political Ideologies - Democracy; Motion pictures; National socialism and motion; National socialism in motion pictures
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