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1950s Science Fiction & Horror Books
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Cyndy Hendershot argues that 1950s science fiction films open a window on the cultural paranoia that characterized 1950s America, a phenomenon largely triggered by use of nuclear weapons during World War II. This study uses psychoanalytic theory to examine the various monsters that inhabit 1950s sci-fi movies—giant insects, prehistoric creatures, mutants, uncanny doubles, to name a few—which serve as metaphorical embodiments of a varied and complex cultural paranoia. Postwar paranoia may have stemmed from the bomb, but it came to correlate with a wider range of issues such as anti-communism, internal totalitarianism, scienti
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Manufacturer: Popular Press 1
Release date: 1 September 1999
ISBN-10 : 0879727993 | ISBN-13: 9780879727994
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Release date: 1 September 1999
ISBN-10 : 0879727993 | ISBN-13: 9780879727994
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