LoginSmokin' Rockets: The Romance of Technology in American Film, Radio and Television, 1945-1962
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1950s Science Fiction & Horror Books
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This work examines science and science fiction in American culture from the end of World War II to 1962. The radio work of Arch Oboler and the significance of his "Rocket from Manhattan" - airing only a month after the first atomic bomb was dropped and asking serious questions about the use of atomic energy - are for instance examined. Other topics are the conflict between the free world and the Communist world in the context of science fiction plot lines, the dangers of science as shown in films, the flying saucer phenomenon and the treatment of such stories in the media, the changing and more positive depictions of s
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Manufacturer: Mcfarland & Co Inc Pub
Release date: 1 June 2002
ISBN-10 : 078641233X | ISBN-13: 9780786412334
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Release date: 1 June 2002
ISBN-10 : 078641233X | ISBN-13: 9780786412334
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