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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Autor principal: Matthews, Melvin E.
Autor corporatiu: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electrònic eBook
Idioma:anglès
Publicat: Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., 2012.
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Taula de continguts:
  • 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.