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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Jefferson, N.C. :
McFarland & Co.,
2012.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.