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ABM Treaty
arms race analysis
atomic weapons history
Author_Toni A. Perrine
Category=ATF
Cold War Arms Race
Cold War cinema
Cold War Films
Commercial Narrative Films
cultural anxiety
Enola Gay
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filmography
Full Scale Nuclear Exchange
Girl Friends
Los Alamos
NATO Officer
nuclear conflict film analysis
Nuclear Disarmament
Nuclear Disaster
Nuclear Fear
nuclear status quo
Nuclear War
post-apocalyptic studies
Post-nuclear World
Postnuclear World
radiation fallout effects
Science Fiction Films
science fiction monsters
Star Trek
Star Trek Films
Star Trek II
Swat Team
Time Travel Plot
World War III
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9780815329329
- Weight: 521g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 01 Dec 1997
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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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 responses to our nuclear capability. The production of popular narrative films with nuclear topics largely conforms to periods of heightened nuclear awareness or fear, such as the fear of fallout from nuclear testing manifested in the atomic creatures in science fiction movies of the late 1950s. By their very numbers, and through a set of recurring stylistic and narrative conventions, nuclear films reflect a deep-seated cultural anxiety. This study includes detailed textual analysis of films that depict nuclear issues including the development and use of the first atomic bombs, nuclear testing and the fear of fallout, nuclear power, the Cold War arms race, loose nukes, and future nuclear war and its aftermath.(Includes bibliographic references, index, filmography, choronology; Illustrated)
