1st Edition
Film and the Nuclear Age Representing Cultural Anxiety
By Toni A. Perrine
Copyright 1998
304 Pages
by
Routledge
304 Pages
by
Routledge
304 Pages
by
Routledge
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Just as we generally pay scant attention to the potential dangers of nuclear power and nuclear war, until quite recently, scholars have made limited critical attempts to understand the cultural manifestations of the nuclear status quo. Films that feature nuclear issues most often simplify and trivialize the subject. They also convey a sense of the ambivalence and anxiety that pervades cultural... Read more
I Representing the Bomb: Film and the Nuclear Age, II Fat Man and Little Boy: The First Atomic Bombs, III The Godzilla Factor: Nuclear Testing and Fear of Fallout, IV How We Learned to Love the Bomb: The Cold War Arms Race, V The Day After Midnight: Nuclear War and Its Aftermath, VI Beyond Apocalypse: The Postnuclear Future, VII Threads: Cultural Connections in the Nuclear Age, Chronology: The Nuclear Age.
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Toni A. Perrine
