Nuclear shadows on silvered walls : atomic bomb cinema, from 1935 to 1991 / by Jerome Franklin Shapiro, Ph.D.

Format:

• Book
• Manuscript
• Thesis/Dissertation

Author/Creator:

• Shapiro, Jerome Franklin, 1958-

Contributor:

• The Library of Chaim Potok (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Nuclear warfare in motion pictures.
• Science fiction films--History and criticism.
• Science fiction films.
• Motion pictures--United States--History.
• Motion pictures.
• United States.
• History.
• Motion pictures--Japan--History.
• Japan.

Genre:

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• History.

Penn Provenance:

• Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)

Physical Description:

x, 425 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Production:

1991.

Contents:

• The cultural context of atomic bomb cinema
• 1893-1945: prototypical bomb films
• 1945-1949: the initial elation after Hiroshima & Nagasaki
• 1950-1964: an ideologically and formally complex growth industry
• 1950-1964: the Soviets get the bomb, and utopic, dystopic, and revolutionary fantasies come to fruition
• 1964-1979: The Cuban Missile Crisis and the Kennedy Assassination, losing faith in social institutions
• 1980-1989: The Reagan Era
• 1981-1991: the post cold war era
• Conclusion.

Notes:

• Author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Comparative Culture, University of California, Irvine, 1991.
• Filmography: pages 401-421.
• Includes bibliographical references (pages 387-394).
• Photocopy. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University Microfilms International ; 1992.

Local Notes:

• Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.
• Potok Collection copy has post-it with author's address written on it.
• Potok Collection copy has note written on verso of advertisement for Atomic Bomb Cinema by author "To Chaim & Adena: The evening I spent with you and the others, dining and walking around Kyoto, remains fresh in my mind. The words we spoke still echo in my ears. While I never expect to spend such an evening, I count my blessings for having met two such persons and your selves. Chaim, I was taught that the word Rabbi means teacher. If this is so, then, to me at least, you are a Rabbi in the fullest sense of the word. Somehow, these words do not seem adequate, so le me simply say thank you. Love, Jerome H. Shapiro" laid in.

OCLC:

878560183