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Lookout America! the secret Hollywood studio at the heart of the Cold War / Kevin Hamilton & Ned O'Gorman.
Van Pelt Library UG634.5.L66 H36 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hamilton, Kevin, 1973- author.
- O'Gorman, Ned, author.
- Series:
- Interfaces, studies in visual culture
- Interfaces : studies in visual culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lookout Mountain Laboratory.
- United States. Air Force. Photographic squadron, 1352nd.
- United States. Air Force.
- Military cinematography--United States.
- Photography, Military--United States.
- Nuclear weapons--United States--Testing.
- Nuclear weapons.
- Motion picture industry.
- Photography, Military.
- Military cinematography.
- United States.
- Testing.
- Motion picture industry--Military aspects--United States.
- Nuclear weapons information, American.
- Propaganda, American--History--20th century.
- Propaganda, American.
- History.
- Cold War.
- Nuclear weapons--Testing.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 309 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Hanover, New Hampshire : Dartmouth College Press, [2019]
- Summary:
- "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"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Hollywood's nuclear weapons laboratory
- Colonels, cameras, and security clearances
- Strategies of containment : Lookout Mountain's oceanic operations
- Sense and sensibilities : Lookout Mountain's Operation Ivy
- Routine reports : the Nevada films
- The vectors of America : missile films
- Engineering geographies : Arctic and space films
- The Vietnamization of the Cold War camera
- Mushroom cloud cameras
- Closure.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781512603279
- 1512603279
- OCLC:
- 1074250174
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