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Apocalypse Then: American and Japanese Atomic Cinema, 1951-1967

Apocalypse Then: American and Japanese Atomic Cinema, 1951-1967

Bogue, Mike

Paperback

Literary CriticismAsian American StudiesFilm Studies

ISBN10: 1476668418
ISBN13: 9781476668413
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Published: Sep 26 2017
Pages: 316
Weight: 1.25
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.80 Depth: 9.90
Language: English

The United States, the only country to have dropped the bomb, and Japan, the only one to have suffered its devastation, understandably portray the nuclear threat differently on film. American science fiction movies of the 1950s and 1960s generally proclaim that it is possible to put the nuclear genie back in the bottle. Japanese films of the same period assert that once freed the nuclear genie can never again be imprisoned. This book examines genre films from the two countries released between 1951 and 1967--including Godzilla (1954), The Mysterians (1957), The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957), On the Beach (1959), The Last War (1961) and Dr. Strangelove (1964)--to show the view from both sides of the Pacific.

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