David Seed

American Science Fiction and the Cold War (eBook, PDF)

Literature and Film

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

American Science Fiction--in both literature and film--has played a key role in the portrayal of the fears inherent in the Cold War. The end of this era heralds the need for a reassessment of the literary output of the forty-year period since 1945. Working through a series of key texts, American Science Fiction and the Cold War investigates the political inflections put on American narratives in the post-war decades by Cold War cultural circumstances. Nuclear holocaust, Russian invasion, and the perceived rise of totalitarianism in American society are key elements in the author's exploration of science fiction narratives that include Fahrenheit 451, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, and Dr. Strangelove.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 225
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135953829
• Artikelnr.: 39955471

Autorenporträt

David Seed

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter I Postwar Jeremiads: Philip Wylie and Leo Szilard
Chapter II Variations on a Patriotic Theme: Robert A. Heinlein
Chapter III History and Apocalypse in Poul Anderson
Chapter IV Views from the Hearth
Chapter V Cultures of Surveillance
Chapter VI Take-Over Bids: Frederik Pohl and Cyril Kornbluth
Chapter VII The Russians Have Come
Chapter VIII Embodying the Arms Race: Bernard Wolfe's Limbo
Chapter IX The Cold War Computerised
Chapter X Conspiracy Narratives
Chapter XI Absurdist Visions: Dr. Strangelove in Context
Chapter XII The Signs of War: Walter M. Miller and Russel Hoban
Chapter XIII In the Aftermath
Chapter XIV The Star Wars Debate