Duck and cover: civil defense images in film and television from the Cold War to 9/11

"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...

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1. Verfasser: Matthews, Melvin E. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Jefferson, NC McFarland 2012
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Zusammenfassung:"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
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Duck and cover: civil defense and government propaganda films -- Doomsday on the big screen: civil defense and Fifties cinema -- Doomsday on the small screen: civil defense and early television -- The Kennedy years: "shelter morality" and survivalism -- "Do you really want to have lived without ever having made love?" nuclear nostalgia in the Seventies -- Reagan, the nuclear freeze movement, and the day after -- From the Nineties to 9/11
Beschreibung:V, 223 S. Ill. 23 cm
ISBN:9780786465873
0786465875

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