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Record Nr.

UNINA9910813271503321

Titolo

Filling the hole in the nuclear future : art and popular culture respond to the bomb / / edited by Robert Jacobs

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, MD : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , 2010

©2010

ISBN

1-282-49449-X

9786612494499

0-7391-3558-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiv, 276 pages)

Collana

AsiaWorld

Altri autori (Persone)

JacobsRobert A. <1960->

Disciplina

700/.4581

Soggetti

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

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Introduction; Ch01. Fetch-Lights and Grocery Lists; Ch02. Poems from Critical Assembly; Ch03. Robots, A-Bombs, and War; Ch04. The Day the Sun Was Lost; Ch05. The Summer You Can't GoBack To; Ch06. "The Buck Stops Here"; Ch07. Godzilla and the Bravo Shot; Ch08. Thank You, Mr. Avedon*; Ch09. Target Earth; Ch10. Nuclear Culture; Ch11. Nuclear Fear 1987-2007; Index; About the Contributors

Sommario/riassunto

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 grappling with what nuclear weapons



have wrought, side by side, including Spencer Weart's updating of his classic book, Nuclear Fear.