{"product_id":"the-naked-communist-cold-war-modernism-and-the-politics-of-popular-culture-9780823245574","title":"The Naked Communist: Cold War Modernism and the Politics of Popular Culture","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Roland Végső\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e American Literatures Initiative\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/10\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.10w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780823245574\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRoland Vegso\u003c\/strong\u003e is Assistant Professor of Literary and Critical Theory in the Department of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"American Literatures Initiative","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":41261996802163,"sku":"9.78082E+12","price":59.15,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_7da6df0a-303a-4d46-a2c9-86538ce23cd4.jpg?v=1705502667","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/the-naked-communist-cold-war-modernism-and-the-politics-of-popular-culture-9780823245574","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}