New Americanists

Resistance and the Crisis of Masculinity

By: Robert J. Corber

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Challenging widely held assumptions about postwar gay male culture and politics, Homosexuality in Cold War America examines how gay men in the 1950s resisted pressures to remain in the closet. Robert J. Corber argues that a form of gay male identity emerged in the 1950s that simultaneously drew on and transcended left-wing opposition to the Cold War cultural and political consensus. Combining readings of novels, plays, and films of the period with historical research into the national security state, the growth of the suburbs, and postwar consumer culture, Corber examines how gay men resisted the "organization man" model of masculinity that rose to dominance in the wake of World War II.
By exploring the representation of gay men in film noir, Corber suggests that even as this Hollywood genre reinforced homophobic stereotypes, it legitimized the gay male "gaze." He emphasizes how film noir&;s introduction of homosexual characters countered the national "project" to render gay men invisible, and marked a deep subversion of the Cold War mentality. Corber then considers the work of gay male writers Tennessee Williams, Gore Vidal, and James Baldwin, demonstrating how these authors declined to represent homosexuality as a discrete subculture and instead promoted a model of political solidarity rooted in the shared experience of oppression. Homosexuality in Cold War America reveals that the ideological critique of the dominant culture made by gay male authors of the 1950s laid the foundation for the gay liberation movement of the following decade.

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"Homosexuality in Cold War America is an important contribution to our understanding of postwar U.S. culture and a welcome step toward historicizing questions of male subjectivity." - Jay Clayton, Vanderbilt University "Corber substantially rethinks the work of these 1950s writers and links them to recent poststructuralist interventions. Wonderfully nuanced, this marks an important contribution to the field of U.S. cultural studies." - David Savran, Brown University

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Acknowledgments
Introduction: I'm Really a Queen Myself	p. 1
Film Noir and the Political Economy of Cold War Masculinity	p. 21
Masculinizing the American Dream: Discourses of Resistance in the Cold War Era	p. 23
Resisting the Lure of the Commodity: Laura and the Spectacle of the Gay Male Body	p. 55
"Real American History": Crossfire and the Increasing Invisibility of Gay Men in the Cold War Era	p. 79
Gay Male Cultural Production in the Cold War Era	p. 105
Tennessee Williams and the Politics of the Closet	p. 107
Gore Vidal and the Erotics of Masculinity	p. 135
A Negative Relation to One's Culture: James Baldwin and the Homophobic Politics of Form	p. 160
Conclusion: The Work of Transformation	p. 191
Notes	p. 199
Index	p. 237
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