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Author Shapiro, Jerome Franklin, 1958-

Title Atomic bomb cinema : the apocalyptic imagination on film / Jerome F. Shapiro
Published New York : Routledge, 2002

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Description 1 online resource (x, 386 pages) : illustrations
Contents 1 1895 to 1945: Prototypical bomb films -- 2 1945 to 1949: The initial elation after Hiroshima amd Nagasaki -- 3 1950 to 1963, Part 1: A complex growth industry -- 4 1950 to 1963, Part II: Cold war fantasies -- 5 1964 to 1979: Losing faith in social institutions -- 6 1980 to 1989: The Reagan era -- 7 1990 to 2001: The post-cold war years -- 8 1945 to 2001: Japan's atomic bomb cinema -- Demonic cinema -- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY -- FILMOGRAPHY
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-357) and index
Filmography: pages 359-378
Notes Print version record
Subject Nuclear warfare in motion pictures.
Science fiction films -- History and criticism
Motion pictures -- United States -- History
Motion pictures -- Japan -- History
ART -- Film & Video.
PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- Reference.
Motion pictures
Nuclear warfare in motion pictures
Science fiction films
Film
Geschichte
Kernwaffe Motiv
Kernwaffe
Filmkunst.
Kernwapens.
Sociale aspecten.
Culturele aspecten.
Wereldondergang.
Bombe atomique -- Au cinéma.
Guerre nucléaire -- Au cinéma.
Films de science-fiction -- Histoire et critique.
Japan
United States
Japan
USA
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2002277634
ISBN 9781135350123
1135350124