Perrine, Toni – Beyond Apocalypse: Recent representation of nuclear war and its aftermath in U. S. narrative films
Chapter
1. INTRODUCTION
2. FILM AND THE NUCLEAR AGE
The Nuclear Age: Historical and Cultural Context Nuclear War and Film
3. THE SCIENCE FICTION FILM GENRE
Science Fiction Form and Function
Blade Runner and Steel Daw as Representational Models
4. NUCLEAR WAR AS CURRENT EVENT:
THE DAY AFTER
Reality, Verisimilitude and Nuclear War
5. THE DYSTOPIC POSTNUCLEAR FUTURE: A BOY AND HIS
The Dominance of Dystopia
6. NUCLEAR XAR AS PARODY: RADIOACTIVE DREAMS
Survivalist Fantasy and Nuclear War
7. TIME TRAVEL AND NUCLEAR WAR:
THE TERMINATOR
Avoiding Nuclear War Through Time Travel
8. THE UTOPIC POSTNUCLEAR FUTURE:
STAR TREK
THE WRATH OF KHAN
Technological Utopianism
9. CONCLUSION: THE SIGNIFICANCE OF REPRESENTATIONS OF NUCLEAR WAR IN FILMS
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Knee, Adam – The American science fiction film and fifties culture
Table of Contents:
1. Introduction ........................................ 1
2. Initial Forays ..................................... 58
3. Metaphors of Alien Vision ...............177
4. Monsters from Within ..................... 256
5. Domestic Alienations ...................... 316
6. Conclusion ....................................... 435
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Lewis, Barbara Jo – Human machine: The treatment of the cyborg in American popular fiction and films
The researcher's purposes in this study have been to trace the evolution of the figure of the cyborg in selected American popular fiction and film, analyze the presentation of the figure as it changes over time within this century, and examine the attitudes, beliefs and values about the relationship of humans to technology codified and propagated through the narratives into which the cyborg is woven.
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Zarlengo, Kristina - Inside the Nuclear Theater (Fiction, Propaganda and Imagination in the American Atomic Age)
ABSTRACT
My dissertation investigates the atomic age, an era of American history when civilian notions of nationalism were dominated by fictions that were sometimes propaganda, sometimes novels and films. The first chapter is a review of the pre-1945 official history of the Manhattan Project and the U.S. decision to drop atomic bombs on Japan. That chapter is a backdrop to the remainder of the dissertation, which is about not official history, but particular historical changes in consciousness and rearticulations of standing tropes that have spun out from atom bomb technologies, as reflected in fictions. I review different kinds of fiction about atomic bombs, from a variety of media: those generated by officials in public information campaigns (especially those that stitched together atomic age constructions of gender); those in several fictional accounts of life under the threat of nuclear war; those in films about nuclear armageddon; and those of Thomas Pynchon's novels Gravity's Rainbow and The Crying of Lot 49. In different ways, all of these fictions compose a public history of the atomic age; they are stories that chart the contents of secular knowledge about atomic energy. In that sense, are epistemological fictions.
In chapter two, I closely study motifs and metaphors in post-1945 public information. Chapter three is a review of how atomic age constructions of gender roles asked members of the public to miniaturize and personalize atomic power, to bring it into their imaginations. In chapter four, I study films about nuclear war, especially Dr. Strangelove and Fail Safe; in chapter five I read some examples of atomic age fiction, including some pulp fiction, but with an emphasis on J.G. Ballard's "The Terminal Beach," John Cheever's
The Wapshot Scandal and Don DeLillo's White Noise. Finally, I read Thomas Pynchon's fiction as an elegant record of an age defined by hysteresis, the prominence of human-made environments, and culture that is supported by a death far different from the armageddon promised by nuclear war, a death that happens by degrees.
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Science Fiction articles
Bowdoin Van Riper - From Gagarin to Armageddon
Gincarlo Genta - Will space actually be the final frontier of humankind
Harvey Greenberg - Fantastic voyages
J. P. Telotte - Television as science fiction icon
James Wierzbicki - Weird Vibrations
John Tibbetts - Putting science fiction into focus
Kieran Tranter - Terror in the texts - Technology law future
Lisa Barnett - Social class and cultural repertoires
Martin Corbett - Reconstructing human-centred technology
Michael Barnett - The Impact of Science Fiction Film on Student
Miranda Banks - National Monument as a science fiction
Nancy Anisfield - Godzilla Evolution of the nuclear metaphor
Neal McCrillis - British cinema during the early cold war
Robert Harle - Cyborgs uploading and immortality
Teresa Rizo - The Alien series
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