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Nuclear shadows on silvered walls : atomic bomb cinema, from 1935 to 1991 / by Jerome Franklin Shapiro, Ph.D.
LIBRA Rare PN1995.9.W3 S529 1992 Potok copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Thesis/Dissertation
- Author/Creator:
- Shapiro, Jerome Franklin, 1958-
- 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
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