Under the Shadow - Seed, David
56,99 €
inkl. MwSt.
Versandkostenfrei*
Versandfertig in 2-4 Wochen
payback
28 °P sammeln
  • Gebundenes Buch

In Pat Frank’s 1959 novel Alas, Babylon, the character Helen says of her children: “All their lives, ever since they’ve known anything, they’ve lived under the shadow of war—atomic war. For them the abnormal has become normal.” The threat of nuclear annihilation was a constant source of dread during the Cold War, and in Under the Shadow, author David Seed examines how authors and filmmakers made repeated efforts in their work to imagine the unimaginable

Andere Kunden interessierten sich auch für
Produktbeschreibung
In Pat Frank’s 1959 novel Alas, Babylon, the character Helen says of her children: “All their lives, ever since they’ve known anything, they’ve lived under the shadow of war—atomic war. For them the abnormal has become normal.” The threat of nuclear annihilation was a constant source of dread during the Cold War, and in Under the Shadow, author David Seed examines how authors and filmmakers made repeated efforts in their work to imagine the unimaginable
Autorenporträt
David Seed holds a chair in American Literature at Liverpool University, UK. In addition to books on Thomas Pynchon, Joseph Heller, and others, he has written American Science Fiction and the Cold War, a precursor to the present study, Brainwashing: The Fictions of Mind Control (The Kent State University Press, 2004), and edited the Blackwell Companion to Twentieth-Century United States Fiction. He also edits the Science Fiction Texts and Studies series for Liverpool University Press.