 | The Naked Communist: Cold War Modernism and the Politics of Popular Culture Subjects: Anti-communist movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Anti-communist movements -- United States -- Philosophy; Cold War -- Political aspects -- United States; Popular culture -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Based on an analysis of American anti-Communist politics in the 1950s, the book presents parallel readings of modernism and popular fiction by concentrating on four recurrent figures (the world, the enemy, the secret, the catastrophe) in order to show that the two cultural fields participated in a common ideological program. Végső Roland : Roland Végső is Susan J. Rosowski Associate Professor of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. |
