Changed Men (eBook)

Veterans in American Popular Culture after World War II

Erin Lee Mock (Autor)

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2024
284 Seiten
University of Virginia Press (Verlag)
978-0-8139-5096-9 (ISBN)

Infos

Postwar culture and anxiety over the reintegration of veterans into American society Millions of GIs returned from overseas in 1945. A generation of men who had left their families and had learned to kill and to quickly dispatch sexual urges were rapidly reintegrated into civilian life, told to put the war behind them with cheer and confidence. Many veterans struggled, openly or privately, with this transition. Others in society wondered what the war had wrought in them. As Erin Lee Mock shows in this insightful book, the ';explosive' potential of men became a central concern of postwar American culture. This wariness of veterans settled into a generalized anxiety over men's ';inherent' violence and hypersexuality, which increasingly came to define masculinity. Changed Men engages with studies of film, media, literature, and gender and sexuality to advance a new perspective on the artistic and cultural output of and about the ';Greatest Generation,' arguing that depictions of men's violent and erotic potential emerged differently in different forms and genres but nonetheless permeated American culture in these years. Viewing this homecoming through the lenses of war and trauma, classical Hollywood, pulp fiction, periodical culture, and early television, Mock shows this history in a provocative new light.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 28.6.2024
• Reihe/Serie: Cultural Frames, Framing Culture
• Reihe/Serie: Cultural Frames, Framing Culture
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften
• Schlagworte: American Soldier • A Raisin in the Sun • A Streetcar named desire • band of brothers • Betty Friedan • Black Women's Blueprint • Censorship • Correspondence • Desi Arnaz • Domestic space • Dorothy B. Hughes • Father Knows Best • Film noir • Freud • gender norms • Glenn Ford • Greatest Generation • Helen Gurley Brown • Hollywood • Hollywood veterans • Hugh Hefner • hyper-sexuality • I Love Lucy • In a Lonely Place • I, The Jury • Jacqueline Susann • James Edwards • Jim Thompson • Leave it to Beaver • Lorraine Hansbury • Lucille Ball • Magazine • make room for daddy • male psyche • Masculinity • #metoo • Mickey Spillane • Military • morale culture • paperbacks • personal letters • Pin-up • Playboy • Playmate • Pulp Fiction • repression-expression conundrum • Second-Wave Feminism • Servicemen • Sex and the Single Girl • Sitcom • Television • Tennessee Williams • The Donna Reed Show • The Feminine Mystique • The Killer Inside Me • The Valley of the Dolls • Van Heflin • Van Johnson • veteran reintegration • Violence • war buddies • War films • War trauma • Westerns
• ISBN-10: 0-8139-5096-1 / 0813950961
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8139-5096-9 / 9780813950969