American Science Fiction and the Cold War : Literature and Film /

American Science Fiction - in both literature and film - has played a key role in the portrayal of the fears inherent in the Cold War. The end of this era heralds the need for a reassessment of the literary output of the forty-year period since 1945. Working through a series of important texts, Davi...

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Autor principal: Seed, David (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]
Temas:
American Studies.
LITERARY CRITICISM / General.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • I. Postwar Jeremiads: Philip Wylie and Leo Szilard
  • II. Variations on a Patriotic Theme: Robert A. Heinlein
  • III. History and Apocalypse in Poul Anderson
  • IV. Views from the Hearth
  • V. Cultures of Surveillance
  • VI. Take-Over Bids; Frederik Pohl and Cyril Kornbluth
  • VII. The Russians Have Come
  • VIII. Embodying the Arms Race: Bernard Wolfe's Limb
  • IX. The Cold War Computerised
  • X. Conspiracy Narratives
  • XI. Absurdist Visions: Dr. Strangelove in Context
  • XII. The Signs of War: Walter M. Miller and Russell Hoban
  • XIII. In the Aftermath
  • XIV. The Star Wars Debate
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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