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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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Abernathy, Robert, 168
Abrahamson, General James A., 189
Ackerman, Forest J., 54
Agee, James, 4–5, 175
Ahern, Jerry, 177, 178, 183
Amen, Carol, 65, 66
Anderson, Senator Clinton P., 63, 64
Anderson, Poul, 2, 40–3, 45–51, 54, 119–20, 146, 181, 190
Anisfield, Nancy, 12
Anvil, Christopher, 18, 45, 187
Ardrey, Robert, 102, 103
Asimov, Isaac, 21, 80, 119, 120, 128, 132, 190
Astaire, Fred, 169
Ataturk, Kemal, 105
Axelsson, Arne, 12
Bailey, Charles W., 148
Balmer, Edwin, 14, 15
Barrett, Neal, 183–4
Barth, John, 127–8
Barthelme, Donald, 124
Bartter, Martha A., 11, 124, 172
Baruch, Bernard, 1, 18
Bear, Greg, 185
The Beginning of the End (film), 7
The Beginning or the End (film), 7
Benchley, Nathaniel, 94–5
Benford, Gregory, 185, 186
Bermel, Alfred, 149, 150
Berriault, Gina, 145, 146–7
Bischoff, Peter, 129
Blish, James, 3, 8, 71–2, 82, 146, 150, 163
Boddie Williams, Nick, 2, 5
The Bomb (film), 19
Bone, J. F., 120
Boucher, Anthony, 161–2
Bova, Ben, 186, 188–9, 192
Boyer, Paul, 5, 12, 60, 107, 132
Brackett, Leigh, 17, 157–8, 172
Bradbury, Ray, 17, 60, 74, 78–80, 82, 168
Bradley, David, 57
The Brain Eaters (film), 133
Brennan, John P., 85
Bretnor, ...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- I Postwar Jeremiads: Philip Wylie and Leo Szilard
- II Variations on a Patriotic Theme: Robert A. Heinlein
- III History and Apocalypse in Poul Anderson
- IV Views from the Hearth
- V Cultures of Surveillance
- VI Take-Over Bids; Frederik Pohl and Cyril Kornbluth
- VII The Russians Have Come
- VIII Embodying the Arms Race: Bernard Wolfe’s Limbo
- IX The Cold War Computerised
- X Conspiracy Narratives
- XI Absurdist Visions: Dr. Strangelove in Context
- XII The Signs of War: Walter M. Miller and Russell Hoban
- XIII In the Aftermath
- XIV The Star Wars Debate
- Bibliography
- Index