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Duck and Cover: Civil Defense Images in Film and Television from the Cold War to 9/11

Melvin E. Matthews Jr.

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Description:During the 1950s and early 1960s, school air-raid drills, bomb shelters, and unnerving civil defense films served as constant reminders of the looming threat of nuclear war. Throughout America, a widespread civil defense effort used town meetings, public school educational programs, and the mass media--television, radio, and especially, motion pictures--to mobilize every citizen for a protracted Cold War. This volume explores how American popular culture has portrayed civil defense from mid-twentieth-century to the immediate post-September 11 era. With analysis of everything from early government propaganda films and 1950s science fiction films to Happy Days, the Reagan-era TV movie The Day After, and the small-screen nostalgia trend after 9/11, this work shows that whatever the future holds, popular culture has and will continue to address our nuclear fears.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Duck and Cover: Civil Defense Images in Film and Television from the Cold War to 9/11. To get started finding Duck and Cover: Civil Defense Images in Film and Television from the Cold War to 9/11, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: During the 1950s and early 1960s, school air-raid drills, bomb shelters, and unnerving civil defense films served as constant reminders of the looming threat of nuclear war. Throughout America, a widespread civil defense effort used town meetings, public school educational programs, and the mass media--television, radio, and especially, motion pictures--to mobilize every citizen for a protracted Cold War. This volume explores how American popular culture has portrayed civil defense from mid-twentieth-century to the immediate post-September 11 era. With analysis of everything from early government propaganda films and 1950s science fiction films to Happy Days, the Reagan-era TV movie The Day After, and the small-screen nostalgia trend after 9/11, this work shows that whatever the future holds, popular culture has and will continue to address our nuclear fears.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Duck and Cover: Civil Defense Images in Film and Television from the Cold War to 9/11. To get started finding Duck and Cover: Civil Defense Images in Film and Television from the Cold War to 9/11, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

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