Monsters, Mushroom Clouds, and the Cold War: American Science Fiction and the Roots of Postmodernism, 1946-1964 (Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction and Fantasy)
by M. Keith Booker
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The 1950s are widely regarded as the golden age of American science fiction. This book surveys a wide range of major science fiction novels and films from the long 1950s--the period from 1946 to 1964--when the tensions of the Cold War were at their peak. The American science fiction novels and films of this period clearly reflect Cold War anxieties and tensions through their focus on such themes as alien invasion and nuclear holocaust. In this sense, they resemble the observations of social show more and cultural critics during the same period.||Meanwhile, American science fiction of the long 1950s also show lessTags
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M. Keith Booker is professor of English at the University of Arkansas. He is the author or editor of more than fifty books, including The Encyclopedia of Comic Books and Graphic Novels (2010), Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction Literature (Rowman Littlefield, 2014), Mad Men; A Cultural History (Rowman Littlefield, 2016), and Tony Soprano's show more America: Gangsters, Guns, and Money (Rowman Littlefield, 2017). show less
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- Literature Studies and Criticism, Fiction and Literature, Science Fiction
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- 813.0876209054 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English By type Genre fiction Adventure fiction Speculative fiction Science fiction Collections and anthologies History of American science fiction
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- PS374 .S35 .B66 — Language and Literature American literature American literature Prose Prose fiction
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