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: Paperback
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780822326939
Subjects: American studies; Cultural studies; Gay & Lesbian studies; Semiology; Social Science; National socialism in motion pictures; National socialism and motion; Sociology - General; Politics / Current Events; Rhetoric; Sociology; USA; Political Ideologies - Democracy; Film & Video - General; International Relations - General; Film & Television Studies; Gay & Lesbian Studies/Queer Th; Motion pictures; National socialism and motion pictures; National socialism in motion p; Political aspects
First sentence: Like ordinary melodramas, nationalist melodrama is characterized by plots in which the nuclear family is threatened by an external force, the life or chastity of an innocent is endangered, or the family is potentially destroyed from within by the bad behavior of its members.