Research Catalog

Title

Of treason, God and testicles : political masculinities in British and American films of the early Cold War / by Kathleen Starck.

Author

Starck, Kathleen.

Publication

Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016.

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Description

viii, 231 pages; 21 cm

Subject

• Politics in motion pictures
• Masculinity in motion pictures
• Cold War in motion pictures
• Motion pictures > United States > History > 20th century
• Motion pictures > Great Britain > History > 20th century
• Masculinity in motion pictures

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Machine generated contents note: ch. One Introduction -- ch. Two Between Freedom and Totalitarianism: British and American Cinema and the Early Cold War -- British or American? -- Cold War Allies -- British Cinema -- American Cinema -- ch. Three A Man is a Man is a Man? The Early Cold War and Masculinity -- Masculinity -- The 1950s "Crisis of Masculinity" -- Origins of the 1950s "Crisis of Masculinity" -- Post-World War II Anxieties -- Political Masculinities of the Early Cold War -- Politics as an Exclusively Masculine Domain -- The Construction of Hegemonic Cold War Masculinity and "Negative Gendering" -- The Lavender Scare -- Summary -- ch. Four Heroism Lies in the Eye of the Beholder: Early Traitors -- Conspirator (UK, 1949) -- The Iron Curtain (USA, 1948) -- Summary -- ch. Five In God I Trust: Man of the Cloth -- Cardinal Mindszenty -- Religion and the Early Cold War -- Guilty of Treason (USA, 1949) -- The Prisoner (UK, 1955) -- Summary -- ch. Six It Could Happen To You: Prodigal Sons -- High Treason (UK, 1951) -- My Son John (USA, 1952) -- Summary -- ch. Seven Let's Take Off His Testicles: The Cold Warrior -- Big Jim McLain (USA, 1952) -- Fail-Safe (USA, 1964) -- The Manchurian Candidate (USA, 1962) -- Summary -- ch. Eight Romeo and Juliet? Cold War Lovers -- The Young Levers (UK, 1954) -- The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming! (USA, 1966) -- Summary -- ch. Nine But What Does It Mean? Conclusion.

ISBN

• 1443889180
• 9781443889186

OCLC

942710726

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library