Robert Jacobs

Filling the Hole in the Nuclear Future

Art and Popular Culture Respond to the Bomb

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Produktbeschreibung

Filling the Hole in the Nuclear Future presents an international collaboration of scholars and artists who examine multiple reactions of popular culture and the arts to the advent of nuclear weapons. Featuring both contemporary works of scholarship in several fields and works of contemporary artists grappling with what nuclear weapons have wrought, side by side, including Spencer Weart's updating of his classic book, Nuclear Fear.

Produktdetails

• AsiaWorld
• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 292
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 447g
• ISBN-13: 9780739135570
• ISBN-10: 0739135570
• Artikelnr.: 28521744

Autorenporträt

Robert Jacobs is an associate professor at the Hiroshima Peace Institute of Hiroshima City University.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Preface: Hiroshima Story Chapter 2 Introduction: Filling the Hole
in the Future Chapter 3 1. Fetch Lights and Grocery Lists: Metaphors and
Nuclear Weapons Chapter 4 2. from Critical Assembly, Poems Chapter 5 3.
Robots, A-Bombs, and War: Cultural Meanings of Science and Technology in
Japan Around World War Two Chapter 6 4. The Day the Sun Was Lost, Manga
Chapter 7 5. The Summer You Can't Go Back To, Manga Chapter 8 6. "The Buck
Stops Here": Hiroshima Revisionism in the Truman Years Chapter 9 7.
Godzilla and the Bravo Shot: Who Created and Killed the Monster? Chapter 10
8. Thank you Mr. Avedon Chapter 11 9. Target Earth: The Atomic Bomb and the
Whole Earth Chapter 12 10. Nuclear Culture 13 11. Nuclear Fear 1987-2007:
Has Anything Changed? Has Everything Changed?