TY  - GEN
AB  - The Naked Communist argues that the political ideologies of modernity were fundamentally determined by four basic figures: the world, the enemy, the secret, and the catastrophe. While the "world" names the totality that functioned as the ultimate horizon of modern political imagination, the three other figures define the necessary limits of this totality by reflecting on the limits of representation.The book highlights the enduring presence of these figures in the modern imagination through detailed analysis of a concrete historical example: American anti-Communist politics of the 1950s. Its primary objective is to describe the internal mechanisms of what we could call an anti- Communist "aesthetic ideology." The book thus traces the way anti-Communist popular culture emerged in the discourse of Cold War liberalism as a political symptom of modernism. Based on a discursive analysis of American anti-Communist politics, the book presents parallel readings of modernism and popular fiction from the 1950s (nuclear holocaust novels, spy novels, and popular political novels) in order to show that, despite the radical separation of the two cultural fields, they both participated in a common ideological program.
AU  - Végső, Roland, 
CN  - E743.5
DO  - 10.1515/9780823245598
DO  - doi
ID  - 1477564
JF  - Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
JF  - Fordham University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
KW  - Aesthetics
KW  - American literature
KW  - Anti-communist movements in literature.
KW  - Anti-communist movements
KW  - Anti-communist movements
KW  - Cold War in literature.
KW  - Cold War
KW  - Popular culture
KW  - American Studies.
KW  - Literary Studies.
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory.
KW  - Aesthetic Ideology.
KW  - Anti-Communism.
KW  - Catastrophe.
KW  - Cold War.
KW  - Enemy.
KW  - Modernism.
KW  - Popular fiction.
KW  - Secrecy.
LA  - eng
LA  - In English.
LK  - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780823245598
N2  - The Naked Communist argues that the political ideologies of modernity were fundamentally determined by four basic figures: the world, the enemy, the secret, and the catastrophe. While the "world" names the totality that functioned as the ultimate horizon of modern political imagination, the three other figures define the necessary limits of this totality by reflecting on the limits of representation.The book highlights the enduring presence of these figures in the modern imagination through detailed analysis of a concrete historical example: American anti-Communist politics of the 1950s. Its primary objective is to describe the internal mechanisms of what we could call an anti- Communist "aesthetic ideology." The book thus traces the way anti-Communist popular culture emerged in the discourse of Cold War liberalism as a political symptom of modernism. Based on a discursive analysis of American anti-Communist politics, the book presents parallel readings of modernism and popular fiction from the 1950s (nuclear holocaust novels, spy novels, and popular political novels) in order to show that, despite the radical separation of the two cultural fields, they both participated in a common ideological program.
SN  - 9780823245598
T1  - The Naked Communist :Cold War Modernism and the Politics of Popular Culture /
TI  - The Naked Communist :Cold War Modernism and the Politics of Popular Culture /
UR  - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780823245598
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