Matthews, Melvin E. <br/><br/>
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. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> "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. 
<br/><br/><br/>Electronic reproduction. <br/>Palo Alto, Calif. : <br/>ebrary, <br/>2011. <br/>Available via World Wide Web. <br/>Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Civil defense in motion pictures.<br/>Motion pictures--History.--United States<br/>Civil defense on television.<br/>Television programs--History.--United States
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<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PN1995.9.C514  / M38 2012eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>791.43/6556