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04161aam a2200505 i 4500 001 831D0200FF1611E695AA88B7DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20170302010256 008 160128t20162016msua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2016002840 020 $a 1496805658 020 $a 9781496805652 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c STF $d DLC $d BTCTA $d YDXCP $d BDX $d OCLCF $d COO $d PUL $d ZCU $d TWC $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a PN1995.9.S26 $b H28 2016 082 00 $a 791.43/615 $2 23 084 $a HIS036060 $a SOC022000 $a HIS036060 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Hantke, Steffen, $d 1962- $e author. 245 10 $a Monsters in the machine : $b science fiction film and the militarization of America after World War II / $c Steffen Hantke. 264 1 $a Jackson : $b University Press of Mississippi, $c [2016] 300 $a 234 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-227) and index. 505 0 $a A bright new future, with monsters -- Military stock footage -- Veterans -- The Southwest -- Decolonization -- The long shadow of the fifties. 520 $a "During the 1950s and early 1960s, the American film industry produced a distinct cycle of films situated on the boundary between horror and science fiction. Using the familiar imagery of science fiction--from alien invasions to biological mutation and space travel--the vast majority of these films subscribed to the affects and aesthetic of the horror film, anticipating the dominant dystopian turn of many science fiction films to come. Departing from American technological awe and optimism throughout the 1950s, these films were interested in paranoia, unease, fear, shock, and disgust. Not only do they address technophobia and its psychological, social, and cultural corollaries; they also return persistently to the military as a source of character, setting, and conflict. Commensurate with a state of perpetual mobilization, the U.S. military is omnipresent in these films. Regardless of their genre, these films have always been understood as allegories of the Cold War, registering anxieties about two major issues of the time: atomic technologies, especially the testing and use of nuclear weapons, and communist aggression and/or subversion. Setting out to question, expand, and correct this critical argument, this book follows shifts and adjustments prompted by recent scholarly work into the technological, political, and social history of America in the 1950s. Based on this revised historical understanding, science fiction films appear in a new light as they reflect on the troubled memories of World War II, the emergence of the military-industrial complex, the postwar rewriting of the American landscape, and the relative insignificance of catastrophic nuclear war in comparison to America's involvement in postcolonial conflicts around the globe"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Science fiction films $z United States $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Motion pictures $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Armed Forces in motion pictures. 650 7 $a PERFORMING ARTS $x History & Criticism. $x History & Criticism. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a Armed Forces in motion pictures. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00814642 650 7 $a Motion pictures. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01027285 650 7 $a Science fiction films. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01108616 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 648 7 $a 1900-1999 $2 fast 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 776 08 $i Online version: $a Hantke, Steffen, 1962- author. $t Monsters in the machine. $d Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2016 $z 9781496805669 $w (DLC) 2016005524 856 42 $3 Cover image $u http://www.netread.com/jcusers/1343/3148015/image/lgcover.9781496805652.jpg 941 $a 4 952 $l PLAX964 $d 20230718092558.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20200303023915.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191210025439.0 952 $l UQAX771 $d 20170302014822.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=831D0200FF1611E695AA88B7DAD10320 994 $a C0 $b JIDInitiate Another SILO Locator Search