Projections of passing : postwar anxieties and Hollywood films, 1947-1960 /
"A key concern in postwar America was "who's passing for whom?" Analyzing representations of passing in Hollywood films reveals changing cultural ideas about authenticity and identity in a country reeling from a hot war and moving towards a cold one. After World War II, passing b...
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University Press of Mississippi,
2016
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- CHAPTER ONE: Hollywood's Passing Contexts: The Rise of Psychoanalytic Discourse, Identity Studies, and Cold War Culture
- CHAPTER TWO: Passing as Social Strategy: The Early Postwar "Message" Pics
- CHAPTER THREE: Passing as Identity Crisis: The Psychoanalytic Turn in Hollywood
- CHAPTER FOUR: "Hiding in Plain Sight": Political Passing, Communist Fears, and Hollywood
- CHAPTER FIVE: They Walk among Us: Science Fiction Films and Passing Aliens
- CHAPTER SIX: "Both Body and Meaning Can Do a Cartwheel": Postwar Hollywood Masculinities and Passing Anxieties
- CHAPTER SEVEN: Hollywood's Postwar Feminine Masquerades: Masculine Women, Blonde Goddesses, and Passing for Normal
- CONCLUSION
- AFTERWORD AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- NOTES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- SELECT FILMOGRAPHY
- INDEX
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- V
- W
- Y
- Z.
