Haunted by Hitler
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activist identity formation
activist television narratives
AIDS-era protest culture
alternative press history
American antifascist culture
antifascist literary production
antifascist public imagination
antifascist solidarity traditions
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authoritarian threat perception
authoritarianism parallels
Black Power cultural output
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civil liberties defense culture
Cold War repression critique
counter-fascist discourse
critical party press traditions
cultural anxiety expression
cultural resistance strategies
cultural vigilance narratives
democratic resilience culture
dissent media networks
domestic authoritarian anxiety
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grassroots media activism
historical fear campaigns
historical political panics
ideological media struggles
left-liberal intellectual history
liberal-left coalition cultures
mass media ideological battles
McCarthy-era cultural resistance
media and power dynamics
midcentury political fear
national discourse shaping
oppositional journalism history
oppositional public spheres
political aesthetics debates
political art movements
political theater movements
Popular Front activism
popular sociology interventions
progressive media ecology
protest journalism lineage
protest performance culture
public sphere contestation
race and authoritarian critique
radical cultural production
radical publishing networks
subversive narrative framing
theater of political urgency
twentieth century cultural politics
visual culture and politics
Product details
- ISBN 9781625341303
- Weight: 487g
- Dimensions: 144 x 248mm
- Publication Date: 01 Dec 2014
- Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Although fascism is typically associated with Europe, the threat of fascism in the United States haunted the imaginations of activists, writers, and artists, spurring them to create a rich, elaborate body of cultural and political work. Traversing the Popular Front of the 1930s, the struggle against McCarthyism in the 1950s, the Black Power movement of the 1960s, and the AIDS activism of the 1980s, Haunted by Hitler highlights the value of “antifascist” cultural politics, showing how it helped to frame the national discourse.
Christopher Vials examines the ways in which anxieties about fascism in the United States have been expressed in the public sphere, through American television shows, Off-Broadway theater, party newspaper, bestselling works of history, journalism, popular sociology, political theory, and other media. He argues that twentieth-century liberals and leftists were more deeply unsettled by the problem of fascism than those at the center or the right and that they tirelessly and often successfully worked to counter America’s fascist equivalents.
Christopher Vials examines the ways in which anxieties about fascism in the United States have been expressed in the public sphere, through American television shows, Off-Broadway theater, party newspaper, bestselling works of history, journalism, popular sociology, political theory, and other media. He argues that twentieth-century liberals and leftists were more deeply unsettled by the problem of fascism than those at the center or the right and that they tirelessly and often successfully worked to counter America’s fascist equivalents.
Christopher Vials is assistant professor of English at the University of Connecticut and author of Realism for the Masses: Aesthetics, Popular Front Pluralism, and U.S. Culture, 1935–1947.
