Filling the Hole in the Nuclear Future Art and Popular Culture Respond to the Bomb

by Jacobs, Robert; Broderick, Mick; Canaday, John; Engelhardt, Tom; Gallagher, Carole; Hiramoto, Judy; Ito, Kenji; Maeda, Minoru; Maeda, Naoko; Tanaka, Yuki; Weart, Spencer

• ISBN13: 9780739135570
• ISBN10: 0739135570
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-04-12
• Publisher: Lexington Books

Summary

From the dawn of the atomic age, art and popular culture have played an essential role in interpreting nuclear issues for the public and investigating the implications of nuclear weapons for the future of human civilization. Political and social forces often seem paralyzed in thinking beyond the advent of nuclear weapons and articulating a creative response to the dilemma posed by this apocalyptic technology. Art and popular culture are uniquely suited to grapple with the implications of the bomb and the disruptions in the continuity of traditional narratives about the human future endemic to the atomic age.

Author Biography

Robert Jacobs is associate professor at the Hiroshima Peace Institute of Hiroshima City University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Foreword: Hiroshima Story	p. xi
Introduction: Filling the Hole in the Nuclear Future	p. 1
Fetch-Lights and Grocery Lists: Metaphors and Nuclear Weapons	p. 9
Poems from Critical Assembly	p. 29
Robots, A-Bombs, and War: Cultural Meanings of Science and Technology in Japan around World War II	p. 63
The Day the Sun Was Lost (from the film Taiyo wo Nakushita Hi)	p. 99
The Summer You Can't Go Back To (from the manga Kaeranai Natsu)	p. 119
"The Buck Stops Here": Hiroshima Revisionism in the Truman Years	p. 135
Godzilla and the Bravo Shot: Who Created and Killed the Monster?	p. 159
Thank you, Mr. Avedon	p. 171
Target Earth: The Atomic Bomb and the Whole Earth	p. 187
Nuclear Culture	p. 207
Nuclear Fear 1987-2007: Has Anything Changed? Has Everything Changed?	p. 229
Index	p. 267
About the Contributors	p. 275
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