Filling the Hole in the Nuclear Future - Art and Popular Culture Respond to the Bomb

Informationen zum Autor By Robert Jacobs - Contributions by Mick Broderick; John Canaday; Tom Engelhardt; Carole Gallagher; Judy Hiramoto; Kenji Ito; Minoru Maeda; Naoko Maeda; Yuki Tanaka and Spencer Weart Klappentext Filling the Hole in the Nuclear Future presents an international collaboration of scholars and artists who examine multiple reactions of popular culture and the arts to the advent of nuclear weapons. Featuring both contemporary works of scholarship in several fields and works ... Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Preface: Hiroshima Story Chapter 2 Introduction: Filling the Hole in the Future Chapter 3 1. Fetch Lights and Grocery Lists: Metaphors and Nuclear Weapons Chapter 4 2. from Critical Assembly, Poems Chapter 5 3. Robots, A-Bombs, and War: Cultural Meanings of Science and Technology in Japan Around World War Two Chapter 6 4. The Day the Sun Was Lost, Manga Chapter 7 5. The Summer You Can't Go Back To, Manga Chapter 8 6. "The Buck Stops Here": Hiroshima Revisionism in the Truman Years Chapter 9 7. Godzilla and the Bravo Shot: Who Created and Killed the Monster? Chapter 10 8. Thank you Mr. Avedon Chapter 11 9. Target Earth: The Atomic Bomb and the Whole Earth Chapter 12 10. Nuclear Culture 13 11. Nuclear Fear 1987-2007: Has Anything Changed? Has Everything Changed?

Product details

• Authors: Robert Jacobs
• Assisted by: Robert Jacobs (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2010
• EAN: 9780739135563
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-3556-3
• No. of pages: 274
• Series: AsiaWorld (Hardcover); AsiaWorld
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Natural science