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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"...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
©1997.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface: Dr. Strangelove's America: or How Americans Learned to Stop Worrying and Live with the Bomb
- pt. 1. Knowing Sin: The Vertiginous End to American Innocence. Ch. 1. Top of the World: The Corrupting Contours of the Cold War. Ch. 2. Vertigo: The Unhinged Moral Universe of Cold War America
- pt. 2. Psycho: The Emergence of a Schizoid America in the Age of Anxiety. Ch. 3. Duck and Cover: Civil Defense and Existential Anxiety in America. Ch. 4. The Snake Pit: America as an Asylum. Ch. 5. Wild Ones: Youths in Revolt against Adult America
- pt. 3. Is God Dead? An American Awakening on the Eve of Destruction. Ch. 6. Time Enough at Last? The Bomb Shelter Craze and the Dawn of America's Moral Awakening. Ch. 7. Laughter and a New Myth of Life: Attacking the Menace of the American System. Ch. 8. Judgment Day: Dr. Strangelove's Cultural Revolution. Ch. 9. Godless Violence and Transcendent Hope: The American Nightmare Exposed and Contained.