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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Main Author: Matthews, Melvin E.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., 2012.
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245 1 0 |a Duck and cover  |h [electronic resource] :  |b civil defense images in film and television from the Cold War to 9/11 /  |c Melvin E. Matthews, Jr. 
260 |a Jefferson, N.C. :  |b McFarland & Co.,  |c 2012. 
300 |a v, 223 p. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 |a 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. 
520 |a "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. 
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650 0 |a Civil defense in motion pictures. 
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650 0 |a Civil defense on television. 
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