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Unfathomably merciless and powerful, the atomic bomb has left its indelible mark on film. In Atomic Bomb Cinema, Jerome F. Shapiro unearths the unspoken legacy of the bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima and its complex aftermath in American and Japanese cinema.
According to Shapiro, a "Bomb film" is never simply an exercise in ideology or paranoia. He examines hundreds of films like Godzilla, Dr. Strangelove, and The Terminator as a body of work held together by ancient narrative and symbolic traditions that extol survival under devastating conditions. Drawing extensively on both English-language and Japanese-language
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Manufacturer: Routledge
Release date: 9 December 2001
ISBN-10 : 0415936608 | ISBN-13: 9780415936606
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Release date: 9 December 2001
ISBN-10 : 0415936608 | ISBN-13: 9780415936606
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