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"Corber's argument is at once clear and rich. He makes clear that Hitchcock's films engage fundamental issues of sexuality and gender identity, and he also makes clear that these issues are in dialogue with the process of ideological struggle, including the mobilization of homophobia, in which Cold War Liberalism won its powerful place in the 1950s. The richness comes in the contexts Corber provides from that struggle and in the lucid imagination with which he reconceptualizes very famous films in relation to those contexts."—Jonathan Arac

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
1. Draped in the American Flag: Cold War Liberals and the Resistance to Theory 19
2. Reconstructing Homosexuality: Hitchcock and the Homoerotics of Spectatorial Pleasure 56
3. Resisting History: Rear Window and the Limits of the Postwar Settlement 83
4. The Fantasy of the Maternal Voice: The Man Who Knew Too Much and the Eroticization of Motherhood 113
5. "There Are Many Such Stories": Vertigo and the Repression of Historical Knowledge 154
6. Hitchcock Through the Looking Glass: Psycho and the Breakdown of the Social 185
Conclusion 219
Notes 227
Index 257

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      Publisher: MD - Duke University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 10/20/1993 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780822313861, 978-0822313861
      ISBN10: 0822313863
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      Trade Review
      "Corber's argument is at once clear and rich. He makes clear that Hitchcock's films engage fundamental issues of sexuality and gender identity, and he also makes clear that these issues are in dialogue with the process of ideological struggle, including the mobilization of homophobia, in which Cold War Liberalism won its powerful place in the 1950s. The richness comes in the contexts Corber provides from that struggle and in the lucid imagination with which he reconceptualizes very famous films in relation to those contexts."—Jonathan Arac

      Table of Contents
      Acknowledgments ix
      Introduction 1
      1. Draped in the American Flag: Cold War Liberals and the Resistance to Theory 19
      2. Reconstructing Homosexuality: Hitchcock and the Homoerotics of Spectatorial Pleasure 56
      3. Resisting History: Rear Window and the Limits of the Postwar Settlement 83
      4. The Fantasy of the Maternal Voice: The Man Who Knew Too Much and the Eroticization of Motherhood 113
      5. "There Are Many Such Stories": Vertigo and the Repression of Historical Knowledge 154
      6. Hitchcock Through the Looking Glass: Psycho and the Breakdown of the Social 185
      Conclusion 219
      Notes 227
      Index 257

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