In the name of national security
Subtitle: Hitchcock, homophobia, and the political construction of gender in postwar America
By: Robert J. Corber.
Series: New Americanists
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
Subjects: Hitchcock, Alfred, 1899-  -- Criticism and interpretation; Motion pictures -- Political aspects -- United States; Homosexuality in motion pictures
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-256) and index.
Table of contents: title: Draped in the American flag : Cold War liberals and the resistance to theory; title: Reconstructing homosexuality : Hitchcock and the homoerotics of spectatorial pleasure; title: Resisting history : Rear window and the limits of postwar settlement; title: The fantasy of the maternal voice : The Man who knew too much and the erotization of motherhood; title: "There are many such stories" : Vertigo and the repression of historical knowledge; title: Hitchcock through the looking glass : Psycho and the breakdown of the social.