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| Author | : Scott C. Zeman |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 208 |
| Release | : 2004 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
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.
| Author | : Josip Lasic |
| Publisher | : GRIN Verlag |
| Total Pages | : 61 |
| Release | : 2011 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 3640994892 |
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2011 im Fachbereich Geschichte Europa - and. Länder - Europa Nachkriegszeit, Note: 4.5 (Schweizer Note), Universität Zürich (Historisches Seminar), Veranstaltung: Seminar: Leben mit der Bombe. Kultur und Gesellschaft des Westens im Atomzeitalter., Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In der Einleitung des Buches "Atomic Culture. How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb." von Scott Zeman und Michael Amundson, werden vier Perioden der "Atomic Culture" vorgestellt, in denen die Atombombe auf kultureller Ebene unterschiedlich präsentiert und dargestellt wurde. Mit dem ersten Atombombentest der Sowjetunion im Jahre 1949 begann nach dieser Einteilung die sogenannte "High Atomic Culture", welche bis 1963 andauerte. Während dieser Zeitspanne wurden die Menschen auf der Welt, speziell auch in den USA, mit zahlreichen Ereignissen konfrontiert, die im Zusammenhang mit der Atombombe oder nuklearer Energie standen. Während dieser Phase der"High Atomic Culture", speziell in den 50er Jahren, entstanden zahlreiche Filme, in erster Linie aus dem Science-Fiction Genre, welche die Atombombenthematik direkt oder indirekt behandelten. Dabei stellt sich die Frage, wie die Filmemacher mit den Sorgen, Ängsten und Gefahren dieser Zeit umgegangen sind und wie sie all das in ihren Filmen präsentierten. Gab es in den Filmen direkte oder indirekte Kritik an der atomaren Bewaffnung? Konnte die Menschheit die Bedrohungen abwenden? Kam es zu einem Happy End? Oder waren die Filme eher dystopisch und zeigten die vernichtenden Auswirkungen der Atombombe, beziehungsweise ihrer Folgen? All das soll in dieser Arbeit untersucht werden. Ziel ist es, anhand einer Auswahl an Filmen aus dieser Zeit zu erarbeiten, ob es überhaupt ein einheitliches Bild der Atomwaffenproblematik und ihrer Lösungen in den Filmen gab oder ob zumindest gewisse Strukturen und Tendenzen erkennbar sind. Folgendes sind die ausgewählten Filme: Rocketship X-M (Kurt Neumann, USA 1950), The Day the Earth Stood Still (Robert Wise, USA 1951), The War of the Worlds (Byron Haskin, USA 1953), Them! (Gordon Douglas, USA 1954), The Incredible Shrinking Man (Jack Arnold, USA 1957). Die Filme wurden anhand verschiedener Faktoren ausgewählt. Sowohl die Entstehungsdaten, wie auch die Themen der einzelnen Filme unterschiedlich und ein Grossteil der Inhalte der damaligen Science-Fiction Filme ist abgedeckt (die Atombombe als Waffe gegen Ausserirdische, Mutationen von Tieren und Menschen durch die Atombombe, Zerstörung der Welt).
| Author | : Kevin Hamilton |
| Publisher | : Interfaces: Studies in Visual Culture |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2019 |
| Genre | : Cold War |
| ISBN | : 9781512603279 |
"The story of the Cold War era Lookout Mountain Laboratory, or the 1352nd Photographic Group of the United States Air Force, which employed hundreds of Hollywood studio veterans. Engages with issues of the Cold War state and visual culture"--
| Author | : James Gilbert |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 418 |
| Release | : 2008-04-15 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0226293238 |
In this intriguing history, James Gilbert examines the confrontation between modern science and religion as these disparate, sometimes hostile modes of thought clashed in the arena of American culture. Beginning in 1925 with the infamous Scopes trial, Gilbert traces nearly forty years of competing attitudes toward science and religion. "Anyone seriously interested in the history of current controversies involving religion and science will find Gilbert's book invaluable."—Peter J. Causton, Boston Book Review "Redeeming Culture provides some fascinating background for understanding the interactions of science and religion in the United States. . . . Intriguing pictures of some of the highlights in this cultural exchange."—George Marsden, Nature "A solid and entertaining account of the obstacles to mutual understanding that science and religion are now warily overcoming."—Catholic News Service "[An] always fascinating look at the conversation between religion and science in America."—Publishers Weekly
| Author | : Glenn Frankel |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
| Total Pages | : 401 |
| Release | : 2017-02-21 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 162040950X |
From the New York Times-bestselling author of The Searchers, the revelatory story behind the classic movie High Noon and the toxic political climate in which it was created. It's one of the most revered movies of Hollywood's golden era. Starring screen legend Gary Cooper and Grace Kelly in her first significant film role, High Noon was shot on a lean budget over just thirty-two days but achieved instant box-office and critical success. It won four Academy Awards in 1953, including a best actor win for Cooper. And it became a cultural touchstone, often cited by politicians as a favorite film, celebrating moral fortitude. Yet what has been often overlooked is that High Noon was made during the height of the Hollywood blacklist, a time of political inquisition and personal betrayal. In the middle of the film shoot, screenwriter Carl Foreman was forced to testify before the House Committee on Un-American Activities about his former membership in the Communist Party. Refusing to name names, he was eventually blacklisted and fled the United States. (His co-authored screenplay for another classic, The Bridge on the River Kwai, went uncredited in 1957.) Examined in light of Foreman's testimony, High Noon's emphasis on courage and loyalty takes on deeper meaning and importance. In this book, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Glenn Frankel tells the story of the making of a great American Western, exploring how Carl Foreman's concept of High Noon evolved from idea to first draft to final script, taking on allegorical weight. Both the classic film and its turbulent political times emerge newly illuminated.
| Author | : Jerome Franklin Shapiro |
| Publisher | : Psychology Press |
| Total Pages | : 412 |
| Release | : 2002 |
| Genre | : Motion pictures |
| ISBN | : 9780415936606 |
First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
| Author | : Dan Zak |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 418 |
| Release | : 2016-07-12 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 069818923X |
**A Washington Post "Notable Nonfiction Book of 2016"** ON A TRANQUIL SUMMER NIGHT in July 2012, a trio of peace activists infiltrated the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Nicknamed the “Fort Knox of Uranium,” Y-12 was supposedly one of the most secure sites in the world, a bastion of warhead parts and hundreds of tons of highly enriched uranium—enough to power thousands of nuclear bombs. The three activists—a house painter, a Vietnam War veteran, and an 82-year-old Catholic nun—penetrated the complex’s exterior with alarming ease; their strongest tools were two pairs of bolt cutters and three hammers. Once inside, these pacifists hung protest banners, spray-painted biblical messages, and streaked the walls with human blood. Then they waited to be arrested. WITH THE BREAK-IN and their symbolic actions, the activists hoped to draw attention to a costly military-industrial complex that stockpiles deadly nukes. But they also triggered a political and legal firestorm of urgent and troubling questions. What if they had been terrorists? Why do the United States and Russia continue to possess enough nuclear weaponry to destroy the world several times over? IN ALMIGHTY, WASHINGTON POST REPORTER Dan Zak answers these questions by reexamining America’s love-hate relationship to the bomb, from the race to achieve atomic power before the Nazis did to the solemn 70th anniversary of Hiroshima. At a time of concern about proliferation in such nations as Iran and North Korea, the U.S. arsenal is plagued by its own security problems. This life-or-death quandary is unraveled in Zak’s eye-opening account, with a cast that includes the biophysicist who first educated the public on atomic energy, the prophet who predicted the creation of Oak Ridge, the generations of activists propelled into resistance by their faith, and the Washington bureaucrats and diplomats who are trying to keep the world safe. Part historical adventure, part courtroom drama, part moral thriller, Almighty reshapes the accepted narratives surrounding nuclear weapons and shows that our greatest modern-day threat remains a power we discovered long ago.
| Author | : Jonathan Hogg |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 249 |
| Release | : 2016-01-28 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1441109242 |
The advent of the atomic bomb, the social and cultural impact of nuclear science, and the history of the British nuclear state after 1945 is a complex and contested story. British Nuclear Culture is an important survey that offers a new interpretation of the nuclear century by tracing the tensions between 'official' and 'unofficial' nuclear narratives in British culture. In this book, Jonathan Hogg argues that nuclear culture was a pervasive and persistent aspect of British life, particularly in the years following 1945. This idea is illustrated through detailed analysis of various primary source materials, such as newspaper articles, government files, fictional texts, film, music and oral testimonies. The book introduces unfamiliar sources to students of nuclear and cold war history, and offers in-depth and critical reflections on the expanding historiography in this area of research. Chronologically arranged, British Nuclear Culture reflects upon, and returns to, a number of key themes throughout, including nuclear anxiety, government policy, civil defence, 'nukespeak' and nuclear subjectivity, individual experience, protest and resistance, and the influence of the British nuclear state on everyday life. The book contains illustrations, individual case studies, a select bibliography, a timeline, and a list of helpful online resources for students of nuclear history.
| Author | : Daniel W. Powell |
| Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
| Total Pages | : 191 |
| Release | : 2018-11-23 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1498587453 |
Horror Culture in the New Millennium: Digital Dissonance and Technohorror explores the myriad ways in which technology is altering the human experience as articulated in horrific storytelling. The text surveys a variety of emerging trends and story forms in the field, through both a series of critical essays and personal interviews with scholars, editors, authors, and artists now creating and refining horror stories in the new millennium. The project posits a rationale for the presence of technohorror as a defining concern in contemporary horror literature, marking a departure from the monstrous and spectral traditions of the twentieth century in its depictions of frightful narratives marked by the qualities of plausibility, mundanity, and surprise as we tell stories about what it means to be human. As our culture explores the dichotomies of the born/made, natural/artificial, and human/computer—all while subsumed within a paradigm shift predicated on the transition from the traditions of print to emerging digital communications practices—these changes form the basis for horrific speculations in our texts and technologies. Ultimately, Digital Dissonance: Horror Culture in the New Millennium explores that paradoxical human attraction for peering into the darkness as translated through our lived experiences in an era of rapidly evolving technologies.
| Author | : Dominick Pisano |
| Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
| Total Pages | : 420 |
| Release | : 2003 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780472068333 |
A fascinating account of America's relationship with the airplane
