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050 00 $aPN1995.9.S26$bH28 2016
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100 1 $aHantke, Steffen,$d1962-$eauthor.
245 10 $aMonsters in the machine :$bscience fiction film and the militarization of America after World War II /$cSteffen Hantke.
264 1 $aJackson :$bUniversity Press of Mississippi,$c[2016]
264 4 $c <U+0097> ¡ 2016
300 $a234 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 203-227) and index.
505 0 $aA bright new future, with monsters -- Military stock footage -- Veterans -- The Southwest -- Decolonization -- The long shadow of the fifties.
520 $a"During the 1950s and early 1960s, the American film industry produced a distinct cycle of films situated on the boundary between horror and science fiction. Using the familiar imagery of science fiction--from alien invasions to biological mutation and space travel--the vast majority of these films subscribed to the affects and aesthetic of the horror film, anticipating the dominant dystopian turn of many science fiction films to come. Departing from American technological awe and optimism throughout the 1950s, these films were interested in paranoia, unease, fear, shock, and disgust. Not only do they address technophobia and its psychological, social, and cultural corollaries; they also return persistently to the military as a source of character, setting, and conflict. Commensurate with a state of perpetual mobilization, the U.S. military is omnipresent in these films. Regardless of their genre, these films have always been understood as allegories of the Cold War, registering anxieties about two major issues of the time: atomic technologies, especially the testing and use of nuclear weapons, and communist aggression and/or subversion. Setting out to question, expand, and correct this critical argument, this book follows shifts and adjustments prompted by recent scholarly work into the technological, political, and social history of America in the 1950s. Based on this revised historical understanding, science fiction films appear in a new light as they reflect on the troubled memories of World War II, the emergence of the military-industrial complex, the postwar rewriting of the American landscape, and the relative insignificance of catastrophic nuclear war in comparison to America's involvement in postcolonial conflicts around the globe"--$cProvided by publisher.
650 0 $aScience fiction films$zUnited States$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aMotion pictures$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aArmed Forces in motion pictures.
776 08 $iOnline version:$aHantke, Steffen, 1962- author.$tMonsters in the machine.$dJackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2016$z9781496805669$w(DLC) 2016005524
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