Film and the Nuclear Age
Subtitle: Representing Cultural Anxiety (Garland Studies in American Popular History and Culture)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: December 1, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Library Binding
Number of pages: 287
ISBN-13: 9780815329329
Subjects: Films, cinema; Nuclear warfare in motion pictures; Film And Society; Performing Arts; Pop Arts / Pop Culture; Cinema/Film: Book; Popular Culture - General; Film & Video - History & Criticism; Modern - 20th Century/Nuclear Age; History / General; Film & Video - General; Nuclear warfare in motion pict
First sentence: The nuclear status quo has profoundly affected cultural production in the postwar era, sometimes overtly, but more frequently as a subtle context which is poorly understood, greatly feared, mostly hidden, and largely unconfronted.