Dr. Strangelove's America : society and culture in the atomic age /

Did Dr. Strangelove's America really learn to "stop worrying and love the bomb," as the title of Stanley Kubrick's 1964 film would have us believe? What has that darkly satirical comedy in common with the impassioned rhetoric of Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream"...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Henriksen, Margot A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1997.
Temas:
Since 1945
Cold War > Social aspects > United States.
Atomic bomb > Social aspects > United States.
Atomic bomb > Moral and ethical aspects > United States.
Guerre froide > Aspect social > États-Unis.
Bombe atomique > Aspect social > États-Unis.
Guerre nucléaire > Aspect moral > États-Unis.
HISTORY.
HISTORY / United States / General
Atomic bomb > Moral and ethical aspects
Atomic bomb > Social aspects
Civilization
Social aspects
Kultur
Atomzeitalter
Gesellschaft
Film
Cultuurgeschiedenis.
Kernwapens.
United States > Civilization > 1945-
États-Unis > Civilisation > 1945-
United States
USA
Verenigde Staten.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:Did Dr. Strangelove's America really learn to "stop worrying and love the bomb," as the title of Stanley Kubrick's 1964 film would have us believe? What has that darkly satirical comedy in common with the impassioned rhetoric of Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech or with the beat of Elvis Presley's throbbing "I'm All Shook Up"? They all, in Margot Henriksen's vivid depiction of the decades after World War II, are expressions of a cultural revolution directly related to the atomic bomb.
Because there was little organized, extensive protest against nuclear weapons and nuclear proliferation until the 1980s, America's overall reaction to the bomb has been seen as acceptance or indifference. Henriksen argues instead that, in spite of the ease with which Cold War exigencies overrode all protests by scientists or others after the end of World War II, America's psyche was split as surely as the atom was split. In opposition to the "culture of consensus," which never questioned the pursuit of nuclear superiority, a "culture of dissent" was born. Its current of rebellion can be followed through all the forms of popular culture, and Henriksen evokes dozens of illuminating examples from the 1940s, '50s, and '60s.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xxv, 451 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 389-435) and index.
ISBN:9780520914018
0520914015
0585047618
9780585047614
9780520340909
0520340906

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