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Duck and cover : civil defense images in film and television from the Cold War to 9/11
- Title
- Duck and cover : civil defense images in film and television from the Cold War to 9/11 / Melvin E. Matthews, Jr.
- Author
- Matthews, Melvin E.
- Publication
- Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, c2012.
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- Description
- v, 223 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "This volume explores how American popular culture has portrayed civil defense from mid-twentieth-century to the immediate post-September 11 era. Analyzes everything from early government propaganda films and 1950s science fiction films to Happy Days, the Reagan-era TV movie The Day After, and the small-screen nostalgia trend after 9/11"--Provided by publisher.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Duck and cover: civil defense and government propaganda films -- Doomsday on the big screen: civil defense and Fifties cinema -- Doomsday on the small screen: civil defense and early television -- The Kennedy years: "shelter morality" and survivalism -- "Do you really want to have lived without ever having made love?" nuclear nostalgia in the Seventies -- Reagan, the nuclear freeze movement, and the day after -- From the Nineties to 9/11.
- Call Number
- MFL 12-497
- ISBN
- 9780786465873 (softcover : alk. paper)
- 0786465875 (softcover : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2011039759
- OCLC
- YBP 2011039759
- Author
- Matthews, Melvin E.
- Title
- Duck and cover : civil defense images in film and television from the Cold War to 9/11 / Melvin E. Matthews, Jr.
- Imprint
- Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, c2012.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- MFL 12-497