Under the Shadow: The Atomic Bomb and Cold War Narratives Tapa dura - 2013

The Kent State University Press, 2013. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 1st printing. A square, tight, unmarked copy with virtually no wear in a fine dust jacket.

Hardback. New. In Pat Frank's 1959 novel Alas, Babylon, the character Helen says of her children: "All their lives, ever since they've known anything, they've lived under the shadow of war-atomic war. For them the abnormal has become normal." The threat of nuclear annihilation was a constant source of dread during the Cold War, and in Under the Shadow, author David Seed examines how authors and filmmakers made repeated efforts in their work to imagine the unimaginable. Seed discusses classics of the period like Nevil Shute's On the Beach, but he also argues for recognition of less-known works such as Walter M. Miller's depiction of historical cycles in A Canticle for Leibowitz, Bernard Wolfe's black comedy of aggression in Limbo, or Mordecai Roshwald's satirical depiction of technology running out of human control in Level 7. Seed relates these literary works to their historical contexts and to their adaptations in film. Two prime examples of this… Leer más

Kent State Univ Pr, 2013. Hardcover. New. 299 pages. 9.75x6.75x1.25 inches.

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