The Nuclear Age in Popular Media
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The Nuclear Age in Popular Media

A Transnational History, 1945–1965

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The Nuclear Age in Popular Media

A Transnational History, 1945–1965

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The atomic age was described as one that might soon end in the destruction of human civilization, but from the beginning, utopian images were attached to it as well.This book compares representations of nuclear power in popular media from around the worldtoto trace divergences, convergences, and exchanges.

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2012
ISBN
9781137086181
Topic
History
Subtopic
World History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-Title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Content
  6. List of Illustrations
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Chapter 1 Introduction: A Transnational History of Popular Images and Narratives of Nuclear Technologies in the First Two Postwar Decades
  9. Chapter 2 Shaping the Soviet Experience of the Atomic Age: Nuclear Topics in Ogonyok, 1945-1965
  10. Chapter 3 "To See ... Things Dangerous to Come to": Life Magazine and the Atomic Age in the United States, 1945-1965
  11. Chapter 4 Learning from War: Media Coverage of the Nuclear Age in the Two Germanies
  12. Chapter 5 "Dawn-Or Dusk": Britain's Picture Post Confronts Nuclear Energy
  13. Chapter 6 Nuclear Power, World Politics, and a Small Nation: Narratives and Counternarratives in the Netherlands
  14. Chapter 7 Nuclear Power Plants in "The Only A-bombed Country": Images of Nuclear Power and the Nation's Changing Self-portrait in Postwar Japan
  15. Chapter 8 Promises of Indian Modernity: Representations of Nuclear Technology in the Illustrated Weekly of India
  16. Chapter 9 Conclusion: One World, Two Worlds, Many Worlds?
  17. Appendix I: Picture Essay: Images of Nuclear Power in Illustrated Magazines
  18. Appendix II: Nuclear Issues in Eight Countries, 1945-1965
  19. Notes on Contributors
  20. Index