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  1. Monsters, mushroom clouds, and the Cold War
    American science fiction and the roots of postmodernism, 1946-1964
    Autor*in: Booker, M. Keith
    Erschienen: 2001
    Verlag:  Greenwood Press, Westport, Conn

    The 1950s are widely regarded as the golden age of American science fiction. This book surveys a wide range of major science fiction novels and films from the long 1950s--the period from 1946 to 1964--when the tensions of the Cold War were at their... mehr

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    The 1950s are widely regarded as the golden age of American science fiction. This book surveys a wide range of major science fiction novels and films from the long 1950s--the period from 1946 to 1964--when the tensions of the Cold War were at their peak. The American science fiction novels and films of this period clearly reflect Cold War anxieties and tensions through their focus on such themes as alien invasion and nuclear holocaust. In this sense, they resemble the observations of social and cultural critics during the same period.||Meanwhile, American science fiction of the long 1950s also

     
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    Quelle: Verbundkataloge
    Sprache: Englisch
    Medientyp: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0313318735; 9780313318733
    Schriftenreihe: Contributions to the study of science fiction and fantasy ; no. 95
    Schlagworte: End of the world in literature; Monsters in literature; Postmodernism (Literature); Science fiction, American; Atomic bomb in literature; American fiction; Aliens in literature; Cold War in literature
    Umfang: Online-Ressource (196 p)
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    Includes bibliographical references and index

    Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web

    Contents; Introduction; 1. Politics in the American Science Fiction Novel, 1946-1964: Science Fiction as Social Criticism; 2. The Beginning or the End?: Post-Holocaust Novels and Films, 1946-1964; 3. We're There and They're Here!: Space Exploration and Alien Invasion Films of the Long 1950s; 4. The Creature from the Cold War: Science Fiction Monster Movies of the Long 1950s; Notes; Works Cited; Index