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Eastern Kentucky University
Bombs, Bikinis, and Godzilla: America's Fear and Fascination of the Atomic Bomb as Evidenced Through Popular Media, 1946-1962.
Abstract
dc:description.abstract<p>This project aims to illustrate the change in emotions white, middle class Americans experienced towards the atomic bomb during the nineteen forties to early nineteen sixties by examining the popular culture that they produced and consumed. These Americans described the bomb as being an object of beauty, a powerful savior, an object of prosperity, and a weapon of fear. Each of these depictions are examined in their own separate chapter with various popular culture items examined as evidence. A wide range of popular media were inspected for this study, including films, magazines, comic books, cartoons, novels, and even video games. </p>
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Master of Arts (MA)
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Master's
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- History
- Grantor dc:publisher
- Eastern Kentucky University
- Year
- 2017
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Cornett, Joshua Samuel Scott
Subjects
dc:subject × 8Rights
dc:rights- Statement dc:rights
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- Copyright 2017 Joshua Samuel Scott Cornett
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Repository record dc:identifier
- https://encompass.eku.edu/etd/480
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:encompass.eku.edu:etd-1478