Dr. Strangelove's America Society and Culture in the Atomic Age

Name: Dr. Strangelove's America Society and Culture in the Atomic Age
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ISBN: 9780520083103

ISBN-10: 0520083105

ISBN-13: 9780520083103

Edition: 1998

Authors: Margot A. Henriksen

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Did America really learn to "stop worrying and love the bomb," as the title of Stanley Kubrick's 1964 film,Dr. Strangelove, would have us believe? Does that darkly satirical comedy have anything in common with Martin Luther King Jr.'s impassioned "I Have a Dream" speech or with Elvis Presley's throbbing "I'm All Shook Up"? In Margot Henriksen's vivid depiction of the decades after World War II, all three are expressions of a cultural revolution directly related to the atomic bomb. Although many scientists and other Americans protested the pursuit of nuclear superiority after World War II ended, they were drowned out by Cold War rhetoric that encouraged a "culture of consensus." Nonetheless,…

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List price: $63.00
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 10/28/1997
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 469
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.40" tall
Weight: 2.332
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Preface: Dr. Strangelove's America: or How Americans Learned to Stop Worrying and Live with the Bomb



Knowing Sin: The Vertiginous End to American Innocence



Top of the World: The Corrupting Contours of the Cold War



Vertigo: The Unhinged Moral Universe of Cold War America



Psycho: The Emergence of a Schizoid America in the Age of Anxiety



Duck and Cover: Civil Defense and Existential Anxiety in America



The Snake Pit: America as an Asylum



Wild Ones: Youths in Revolt against Adult America



Is God Dead? An American Awakening on the Eve of Destruction



Time Enough at Last? The Bomb Shelter Craze and the Dawn of America's Moral Awakening



Laughter and a New Myth of Life: Attacking the Menace of the American System



Judgment Day: Dr. Strangelove's Cultural Revolution



Godless Violence and Transcendent Hope: The American Nightmare Exposed and Contained


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Index