Duck and Cover: Civil Defense Images in Film and Television from the Cold War to 9/11 - Softcover

Matthews, Melvin E.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0786465875 ISBN 13: 9780786465873

Verlag: McFarland, 2011

Inhaltsangabe

During the 1950s and early 1960s, school air-raid drills, bomb shelters, and unnerving civil defense films served as constant reminders of the looming threat of nuclear war. Throughout America, a widespread civil defense effort used town meetings, public school educational programs, and the mass media--television, radio, and especially, motion pictures--to mobilize every citizen for a protracted Cold War. This volume explores how American popular culture has portrayed civil defense from mid-twentieth century to the immediate post-September 11 era. With analysis of 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, it shows how popular culture reflects American fears and the hope of preparedness.

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Melvin E. Matthews, Jr., is a contributing writer to the Roanoke (Virginia) Star-Sentinel, Roanoke Magazine, Roanoke Times and History News Network.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: McFarland
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0786465875
• ISBN 13: 9780786465873
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 232
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar