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McFarland & Co, Melvin E. Matthews
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      During the 1950s and early 1960s, school air-raid drills, bomb shelters, and unnerving civil defense films served as constant reminders of the looming threat of nuclear war. Throughout America, a widespread civil defense effort used town meetings, public school educational programs, and the mass media--television, radio, and especially, motion pictures--to mobilize every citizen for a protracted Cold War. This volume explores how American popular culture has portrayed civil defense from mid-twentieth-century to the immediate post-September 11 era. With analysis of 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, this work shows that whatever the future holds, popular culture has and will continue to address our nuclear fears.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: McFarland & Co, Melvin E. Matthews EAN: 9780786465873 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 0 g HEIGHT: 0 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: McFarland & Co Inc DATE PUBLISHED: 2011-10-24 CITY: GENRE: PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General, PERFORMING ARTS / Television / History & Criticism WIDTH: 0 cm SPINE:

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      United States of America, USA, Films, cinema, Television, Radio / podcasts, History of the Americas

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      Melvin E. Matthews, Jr., is a contributing writer to the Roanoke Star-Sentinel, Roanoke Magazine, Roanoke Times and History News Network.
      During the 1950s and early 1960s, school air-raid drills, bomb shelters, and unnerving civil defense films served as constant reminders of the looming threat of nuclear war. Throughout America, a widespread civil defense effort used town meetings, public school educational programs, and the mass media--television, radio, and especially, motion pictures--to mobilize every citizen for a protracted Cold War. This volume explores how American popular culture has portrayed civil defense from mid-twentieth-century to the immediate post-September 11 era. With analysis of 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, this work shows that whatever the future holds, popular culture has and will continue to address our nuclear fears.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: McFarland & Co, Melvin E. Matthews EAN: 9780786465873 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 0 g HEIGHT: 0 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: McFarland & Co Inc DATE PUBLISHED: 2011-10-24 CITY: GENRE: PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General, PERFORMING ARTS / Television / History & Criticism WIDTH: 0 cm SPINE:

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      United States of America, USA, Films, cinema, Television, Radio / podcasts, History of the Americas

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      Melvin E. Matthews, Jr., is a contributing writer to the Roanoke Star-Sentinel, Roanoke Magazine, Roanoke Times and History News Network.

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