Smokin' Rockets the Romance of Technology in American Film, Radio and Television, 1945-1 962
- List Price: $39.95
- Binding: Paperback
- Publisher: McFarland & Co Inc Pub
- Publish date: 06/01/2002
Description:
This is an examination of science and science fiction in American culture beginning in the year World War II ended and going to 1962, the year of John Glenn's orbital flight and the Cuban Missile Crisis. The radio work of Arch Oboler and the significance of his "Rocket from Manhattan, " which aired only one month after the dropping of the first atomic bomb and asked serious questions about the use of atomic energy, are examined.
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Other topics include the conflict between the free world and the Communist world in the context of science fiction plot lines, the dangers of science as shown in films like Godzilla, Them!, and radio and TV programs and the flying saucer phenomenon and the treatment of such stories in the media.
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