American science fiction and the Cold War: literature and film
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Main Author: Seed, David (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press 1999
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Item Description:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
Includes bibliographical references (p. 194-211) and index
Postwar Jeremiads: Philip Wylie and Leo Szilard -- - Variations on a Patriotic Theme: Robert A. Heinlein -- - History and Apocalypse in Poul Anderson -- - Views from the Hearth -- - Cultures of Surveillance -- - Take-Over Bids; Frederik Pohl and Cyril Kornbluth -- - The Russians Have Come -- - Embodying the Arms Race: Bernard Wolfe's Limbo -- - The Cold War Computerised -- - Conspiracy Narratives -- - Absurdist Visions: Dr. Strangelove in Context -- - The Signs of War: Walter M. Miller and Russell Hoban -- - In the Aftermath -- - The Star Wars Debate
American science fiction, both literature and film, has played a key role in the portrayal of the fears inherent in the Cold War. Working through key texts, this work investigates the political inflexions put on American narratives in the post-war decades by Cold War cultural circumstances
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (vi, 216 pages)
ISBN:0585105545
1853312274
9780585105543

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