Duck and cover
Matthews, Melvin E.
Duck and cover civil defense images in film and television from the Cold War to 9/11 / [electronic resource] : Melvin E. Matthews, Jr. - Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., 2012. - v, 223 p.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2011.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Civil defense in motion pictures.
Motion pictures--History.--United States
Civil defense on television.
Television programs--History.--United States
Electronic books.
PN1995.9.C514 / M38 2012eb
791.43/6556
Duck and cover civil defense images in film and television from the Cold War to 9/11 / [electronic resource] : Melvin E. Matthews, Jr. - Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., 2012. - v, 223 p.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2011.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Civil defense in motion pictures.
Motion pictures--History.--United States
Civil defense on television.
Television programs--History.--United States
Electronic books.
PN1995.9.C514 / M38 2012eb
791.43/6556