Filling the hole in the nuclear future : art and popular culture respond to the bomb

Filling the hole in the nuclear future : art and popular culture respond to the bomb /

Filling the Hole in the Nuclear Future presents an international collaboration of scholars and artists who examine multiple reactions of popular culture and the arts to the advent of nuclear weapons. Featuring both contemporary works of scholarship in several fields and works of contemporary artists...

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Other Authors: Jacobs, Robert A., 1960-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham, MD : Rowman & Littlefield, ©2010.
Series:AsiaWorld.
Subjects:
Arts and society > United States > History > 20th century.
Arts and society > Japan > History > 20th century.
Art and nuclear warfare > United States.
Art and nuclear warfare > Japan.
Popular culture > United States > History > 20th century.
Popular culture > Japan > History > 20th century.
Atomic bomb > Social aspects > United States.
Atomic bomb > Social aspects > Japan.
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Table of Contents:
  • Fetch lights and grocery lists: metaphors and nuclear weapons / John Canaday
  • Poems from Critical assembly / John Canaday
  • Robots, A-bombs, and war: cultural meanings of science and technology in Japan around World War Two / Kenji Ito
  • The day the sun was lost (from the film Taiyo wo Nakushita, Hi / Minoru Maeda
  • The summer you can't go back to (from the manga Kaerani Natsu) / Naoko Maeda
  • "The buck stops here": Hiroshima revisionism in the Truman years / Mick Broderick
  • Godzilla and the bravo shot: who created and killed the monster? / Yuki Tanaka
  • Thank you Mr. Avedon / Carole Gallagher
  • Target Earth: the atomic bomb and the whole earth / Robert Jacobs
  • Nuclear culture / Judy Hiramoto
  • Nuclear fear 1987-2007: has anything changed? Has everything changed? / Spencer Weart.

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