TY - BOOK AU - Shapiro,Jerome Franklin TI - Atomic bomb cinema: the apocalyptic imagination on film SN - 0415936608 U1 - 791.43658 PY - 2002/// CY - New York, London PB - Routledge KW - Motion pictures KW - Japan KW - History KW - United States KW - Nuclear warfare in motion pictures KW - Science fiction films KW - History and criticism N1 - Acknowledgments. - Introduction. Vexing questions, and atomic bomb cinema. - 1. 1895 to 1945 : Prototypical bomb films. - 2. 1945 to 1949 : The initial elation after Hiroshima and Nagasaki. - 3. 1950 to 1963, Pt. I : A complex growth industry. - 4. 1950 to 1963, Pt. II : Cold war fantasies. - 5. 1964 to 1979 : Losing faith in social institutions. - 6. 1980 to 1989 : The Reagan era. - 7. 1990 to 2001 : The post-cold war years. - 8. 1945 to 2001 : Japan's atomic bomb cinema. - Conclusion Demonic. - Notes. - Selected Bibliography. - Filmography. - Index ER -