Atomic bomb cinema
Subtitle: the apocalyptic imagination on film
By: Jerome F. Shapiro.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 386
Subjects: Nuclear warfare in motion pictures; Science fiction films -- History and criticism; Motion pictures -- United States -- History; Motion pictures -- Japan -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 351-357) and index.
Filmography: p. 359-378.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1 1895 to 1945: Prototypical bomb films; title: 2 1945 to 1949: The initial elation after Hiroshima amd Nagasaki; title: 3 1950 to 1963, Part 1: A complex growth industry; title: 4 1950 to 1963, Part II: Cold war fantasies; title: 5 1964 to 1979: Losing faith in social institutions; title: 6 1980 to 1989: The Reagan era; title: 7 1990 to 2001: The post-cold war years; title: 8 1945 to 2001: Japan's atomic bomb cinema; title: Demonic cinema; title: SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY; title: FILMOGRAPHY.