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9780415936590

Atomic Bomb Cinema: The Apocalyptic Imagination on Film

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415936590

  • ISBN10:

    0415936594

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2001-12-07
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Summary

Unfathomably merciless and powerful, the atomic bomb has left its indelible mark on film. InAtomic Bomb Cinema,Jerome F. Shapiro unearths the unspoken legacy of the bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima and its complex aftermath in American and Japanese cinema. According to Shapiro, a "Bomb film" is never simply an exercise in ideology or paranoia. He examines hundreds of films likeGodzilla, Dr. Strangelove,andThe Terminatoras a body of work held together by ancient narrative and symbolic traditions that extol survival under devastating conditions. Drawing extensively on both English-language and Japanese-language sources, Shapiro argues that such films not only grapple with our nuclear anxieties, but also offer signs of hope that humanity is capable of repairing a damaged and divided world. www.atomicbombcinema.com

Author Biography

Jerome F. Shapiro is Associate Professor of Cinema and Comparative Culture at Hiroshima University, Japan

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction Vexing questions, and atomic bomb cinema 1(20)
1895 to 1945: Prototypical bomb films
21(30)
1945 to 1949: The initial elation after Hiroshima and Nagasaki
51(22)
1950 to 1963, Part I: A complex growth industry
73(22)
1950 to 1963, Part II: Cold war fantasies
95(46)
1964 to 1979: Losing faith in social institutions
141(28)
1980 to 1989: The Reagan era
169(44)
1990 to 2001: The post--cold war years
213(38)
1945 to 2001: Japan's atomic bomb cinema
251(56)
Conclusion Demonic cinema 307(10)
Notes 317(34)
Selected Bibliography 351(8)
Filmography 359(20)
Index 379

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