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Atomic Bomb Cinema

The Apocalyptic Imagination on Film

Medium: Buch
ISBN: 978-0-415-93659-0
Verlag: Routledge
Erscheinungstermin: 07.12.2001
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Unfathomably merciless and powerful, the atomic bomb has left its indelible mark on film. In Atomic Bomb Cinema, Jerome F. Shapiro unearths the unspoken legacy of the bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima and its complex aftermath in American and Japanese cinema.

According to Shapiro, a "Bomb film" is never simply an exercise in ideology or paranoia. He examines hundreds of films like Godzilla, Dr. Strangelove, and The Terminator as a body of work held together by ancient narrative and symbolic traditions that extol survival under devastating conditions. Drawing extensively on both English-language and Japanese-language sources, Shapiro argues that such films not only grapple with our nuclear anxieties, but also offer signs of hope that humanity is capable of repairing a damaged and divided world.

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Produkteigenschaften


  • Artikelnummer: 9780415936590
  • Medium: Buch
  • ISBN: 978-0-415-93659-0
  • Verlag: Routledge
  • Erscheinungstermin: 07.12.2001
  • Sprache(n): Englisch
  • Auflage: 1. Auflage 2001
  • Produktform: Gebunden, HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
  • Gewicht: 739 g
  • Seiten: 406
  • Format (B x H x T): 157 x 235 x 26 mm
  • Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt
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Introduction: Vexing questions and atomic bomb cinema1:1895 to 1945: Prototypical bomb films2:1945 to 1949: The initial elation after Hiroshima and Nagasaki3:1950 to 1963: Part I: A complex growth industry4:1950 to 1963: Part II: Cold war fantasies5:1964 to 1979: Losing faith in social institutions6:1980 to 1989: The Reagan era7:1990 to 2001: The post-cold war years8:1945 to 2001: Japan's atomic bomb cinemaConclusion: Demonic cinemaNotesSelected BibliographyFilmographyIndex