Fear Itself: Enemies Real and Imagined in American Culture - Hardcover

Schultz, Nancy Lusignan

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ISBN 10: 1557531145 ISBN 13: 9781557531148

Verlag: Purdue University Press, 1999

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This collection contains twenty-seven new essays on American paranoia drawn from a range of disciplines, including American studies, film studies, history, literature, religious studies, and sociology. It's arranged by topic and largely in chronological order, explore manifestations of fear throughout the history of the United States. Approaching the topic from a variety of perspectives and methodologies, contributors to the collection explore theoretical constructions of fear, religious intolerance in early American culture, racial discrimination, literary expressions of paranoia, and Cold War anxieties, as well as phobias of the modern age and about the future. Together, these essays cover topics from nearly every period of U.S. history, offering a remarkable picture of the nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror that Roosevelt discerned as such a paralyzing threat on the eve of the Second World War, and which continues to haunt American culture even as we shape our perceptions of the future.

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This collection of essays drawn from a range of disciplines explores American paranoia and the continuum of fear that has centred on enemies real and imagined in American culture. Contributors examine areas such as theoretical constructions of fear, racial discrimination and religious intolerance.

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• Verlag: Purdue University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• ISBN 10: 1557531145
• ISBN 13: 9781557531148
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 461
• Herausgeber: Lusignan Nancy