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The Nuclear Age in Popular Media

A Transnational History, 1945–1965

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  • © 2012

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  1. Dick Lente
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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction: A Transnational History of Popular Images and Narratives of Nuclear Technologies in the First Two Postwar Decades

    • Dick van Lente
    Pages 1-17

  3. Shaping the Soviet Experience of the Atomic Age: Nuclear Topics in Ogonyok, 1945–1965

    • Sonja D. Schmid
    Pages 19-51

  4. “To See … Things Dangerous to Come to”: Life Magazine and the Atomic Age in the United States, 1945–1965

    • Scott C. Zeman
    Pages 53-77

  5. Learning from War: Media Coverage of the Nuclear Age in the Two Germanies

    • Dolores L. Augustine
    Pages 79-116

  6. “Dawn—Or Dusk?” Britain’s Picture Post Confronts Nuclear Energy

    • Christoph Laucht
    Pages 117-148

  7. Nuclear Power, World Politics, and a Small Nation: Narratives and Counternarratives in the Netherlands

    • Dick van Lente
    Pages 149-173

  8. Nuclear Power Plants in “The Only A-bombed Country”: Images of Nuclear Power and the Nation’s Changing Self-portrait in Postwar Japan

    • Hirofumi Utsumi
    Pages 175-201

  9. Promises of Indian Modernity: Representations of Nuclear Technology in the Illustrated Weekly of India

    • Hans-Joachim Bieber
    Pages 203-232

  10. Conclusion: One World, Two Worlds, Many Worlds?

    • Dolores Augustine, Dick van Lente
    Pages 233-247

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 249-280
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About this book

The atomic age was described as one that might soon end in the destruction of human civilization, but from the beginning, utopian images were attached to it as well. This book compares representations of nuclear power in popular media from around the world to to trace divergences, convergences, and exchanges.

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"The Nuclear Age in Popular Media successfully shows the need to think critically about the contents and flows of discourses on nuclear technology from comparative and transnational perspectives that are often overlooked. This book should become required reading for scholars in the fields of rhetoric, media studies, and history as well as science, technology, and society." - International Journal of Communication

"[I]n nine crisply written and surprisingly coherent chapters, van Lente and expert contributors offer an erudite account of this subject over the critical 20 years from 1945 to 1965, which should appeal to a wider audience than those readers likely to find their way to this work . . . This book, with its haunting cover illustration, makes fascinating reading. Recommended." - CHOICE

About the authors

DICK VAN LENTE is an Associate Professor of History at Erasmus Universiteit, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

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