IN THE HEARTS OF MEN

Published in the midst of cold war paranoia about world communism, the wildly popularGentleman’s Agreement(1946; film 1947) inaugurated the paradoxical companion trend of contending with America’s domestic problems through popular entertainment. Set against an agon figured on one hand as a contest b...

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Published inCinematic Identity p. 21
Main Author Patton, Cindy
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published United States University of Minnesota Press 16.11.2007
EditionNED - New edition
Subjects
Armed conflict
Behavioral sciences
Citizenship
Civics
Civil rights
Communications
Communism
Gay rights
Gender studies
Homosexual relationships
Homosexuality
Human populations
Interpersonal relations
Journalism
Law
Legal rights
LGBT
Mass communication
Mass media
Men
Military science
News media
Persons
Political ideologies
Political philosophy
Political science
Population studies
Psychology
Queer culture
Queer studies
Sexual orientation
Social psychology
Social sciences
War
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Summary:Published in the midst of cold war paranoia about world communism, the wildly popularGentleman’s Agreement(1946; film 1947) inaugurated the paradoxical companion trend of contending with America’s domestic problems through popular entertainment. Set against an agon figured on one hand as a contest between Russia and America and, on the other, as The Horror from which we could no longer retreat (the fantasized atomic holocaust, not the actual racist-genocidal ones), these apparently progressive entertainments directed their moral appeal not to nation but to humanity. And yet, the idea of humanity evoked by such films and novels was itself already
ISBN:9780816634118
0816634114