Title Filling the hole in the nuclear future : art and popular culture respond to the bomb / edited by Robert Jacobs

Published Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, c2010

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 276 p.) Series AsiaWorld AsiaWorld. Contents Fetch lights and grocery lists: metaphors and nuclear weapons / John Canaday -- Poems from Critical assembly / John Canaday -- Robots, A-bombs, and war: cultural meanings of science and technology in Japan around World War Two / Kenji Ito -- The day the sun was lost (from the film Taiyo wo Nakushita, Hi / Minoru Maeda -- The summer you can't go back to (from the manga Kaerani Natsu) / Naoko Maeda -- "The buck stops here": Hiroshima revisionism in the Truman years / Mick Broderick -- Godzilla and the bravo shot: who created and killed the monster? / Yuki Tanaka -- Thank you Mr. Avedon / Carole Gallagher -- Target Earth: the atomic bomb and the whole earth / Robert Jacobs -- Nuclear culture / Judy Hiramoto -- Nuclear fear 1987-2007: has anything changed? Has everything changed? / Spencer Weart Summary From the dawn of the atomic age, art and popular culture have played an essential role interpreting nuclear issues to the public and investigating the implications of nuclear weapons to the future of human civilization. Political and social forces often seemed paralyzed in thinking beyond the advent of nuclear weapons and articulating a creative response to the dilemma posed by this apocalyptic technology. Art and popular culture are uniquely suited to grapple with the implications of the bomb and the disruptions in the continuity of traditional narratives about the human future endemic to the atomic age. Filling the Hole in the Nuclear Future explores the diversity of visions evoked in American and Japanese society by the mushroom cloud hanging over the future of humanity during the last half of the twentieth century. It presents historical scholarship on art and popular culture alongside the work of artists responding to the bomb, as well as artists discussing their own work. From the effect of nuclear testing on sci-fi movies during the mid-fifties in both the U.S. and Japan, to the socially engaged visual discussion about power embodied in Japanese manga, Filling the Hole in the Nuclear Future takes readers into unexpected territory Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed Subject Arts and society -- United States -- History -- 20th century Arts and society -- Japan -- History -- 20th century Art and nuclear warfare -- United States Art and nuclear warfare -- Japan Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century Popular culture -- Japan -- History -- 20th century Atomic bomb -- Social aspects -- United States Atomic bomb -- Social aspects -- Japan ART -- Reference. ART -- Performance. Art and nuclear warfare Arts and society Atomic bomb -- Social aspects Popular culture Japan United States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Jacobs, Robert A., 1960- LC no. 2020739890 ISBN 9780739135587 0739135589

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