Cold war space and culture in the 1960s and 1980s : the bunkered decades / David L. Pike.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

cDavid L. (David Lawrence), 1963- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cold War in popular culture.

Cold War--Social aspects.

Cold War.

Bunkers (fortification) in popular culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (320 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oxford, England : Oxford University Press, [2021]

Summary:

A study of the uses in American culture of the image of the post-war fallout shelter in the 1960s and 1980s that offers ways of understanding those decades and speaks directly to contemporary issues around borders, migration, and national, regional, and personal security.

Contents:

Part 1. America 1962: the new mutants and where they lived

In the basement : shelter, suburbia and the nuclear family

Back to the cave : tribalism and feral humanity

The private supershelter : survivalism and self-reliance

We'll all go together when we go : shelter and community

Mountain deep : government supershelters

Part 2. America 1983: the new survivalism and where it hid

How to survive the 80's

Men's action fictions

Nuclear realism

Feminist bunker fantasies

Conclusion: Cold War space and culture since the Cold War.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Pike, David L. Cold War Space and Culture in the 1960s And 1980s

ISBN:

0-19-266129-9

0-19-193852-1

0-19-266128-0

OCLC:

1285168209