Duck and cover : civil defense images in film and television from the Cold War to 9/11 / Melvin E. Matthews, Jr.

• Duck and cover: civil defense and government propaganda films -- Doomsday on the big screen: civil defense and Fifties cinema -- Doomsday on the small screen: civil defense and early television -- The Kennedy years: "shelter morality" and survivalism -- "Do you really want to have lived without ever having made love?" nuclear nostalgia in the Seventies -- Reagan, the nuclear freeze movement, and the day after -- From the Nineties to 9/11. 

• "This volume explores how American popular culture has portrayed civil defense from mid-twentieth-century to the immediate post-September 11 era. Analyzes 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"--Provided by publisher 

Ämnesord

Civil defense in motion pictures  (LCSH)

Civil defense on television  (LCSH)

Motion pictures  -- United States -- History (LCSH)

Television programs  -- United States -- History (LCSH)

Propagandafilm, USA  (sfit)

TV-program, USA  (sfit)

Indexterm och SAB-rubrik

Propagandafilms, USA

Klassifikation

PN1995.9.C514 (LCC)

791.43/6556 (DDC)

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