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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
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