Duck and cover
Subtitle: civil defense images in film and television from the Cold War to 9/11
By: Melvin E. Matthews, Jr
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Jefferson, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9780786465873
Subjects: Motion pictures; History; Television programs; Civil defense in motion pictures; Civil defense on television
Description: "This volume explores how American popular culture has portrayed civil defense from mid-twentieth-century to the immediate post-September 11 era. Analyzes everything from early government propaganda films and 1950s science fiction films to Happy Days, the Reagan-era TV movie The Day After, and the small-screen nostalgia trend after 9/11"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Duck and cover: civil defense and government propaganda films; title: Doomsday on the big screen: civil defense and Fifties cinema; title: Doomsday on the small screen: civil defense and early television; title: The Kennedy years: "shelter morality" and survivalism; title: "Do you really want to have lived without ever having made love?" nuclear nostalgia in the Seventies; title: Reagan, the nuclear freeze movement, and the day after; title: From the Nineties to 9/11.