Atomic Culture

How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

Häftad, Engelska, 2004

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Eight scholars examine the range of cultural expressions of atomic energy from the 1940s to the early twenty-first century, including comic books, nuclear landscapes, mushroom-cloud postcards, the Los Alamos suburbs, uranium-themed board games, future atomic waste facilities, and atomic-themed films such as Dr. Strangelove' and The Atomic Kid'. Despite the growing interest in atomic culture and history, the body of relevant scholarship is relatively sparse. "Atomic Culture" opens new doors into the field by providing a substantive, engaging, and historically based consideration of the topic that will appeal to students and scholars of the Atomic Age as well as general readers.

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Utgivningsdatum2004-05-04
Mått151 x 224 x 10 mm
Vikt283 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieUniversity of Colorado
Antal sidor200
FörlagUniversity Press of Colorado
ISBN9780870817649

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; Acknowledgments vii; Introduction-SCOTT C. ZEMAN AND MICHAEL A. AMUNDSON 1 CHAPTER 1Atomic Comics: The Comic Book Industry Confronts the Nuclear Age-FERENC M. SZASZ 11 CHAPTER 2Reinventing Los Alamos: Code Switching and Suburbia at America's Atomic City-JON HUNNER 33 CHAPTER 3"Uranium on the Cranium": Uranium Mining and Popular Culture-MICHAEL A. AMUNDSON 51 CHAPTER 4Confronting the "Capitalist Bomb": The Neutron Bomb and American Culture-SCOTT C. ZEMAN 67 CHAPTER 5The Nuclear Past in the Landscape Present-PETER GOIN 83 CHAPTER 6The Mushroom Cloud as Kitsch-A. COSTANDINA TITUS 103 CHAPTER 7Is This the Sum of Our Fears? Nuclear Imagery in Post-Cold War Cinema-MICK BRODERICK 127 CHAPTER 8American Monument: The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant-PETER C. VAN WYCK 151; Contributors 175; Index 179; Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: United States Civilization 1945-Popular culture United States History 20th century, Popular culture United States History 21st century, Nuclear weapons Social aspects United States, Nuclear warfare Social aspects United States, War and society United States, Nuclear energy Social aspects United States