Monsters, Mushroom Clouds, and the Cold War: American Science Fiction and the Roots of Postmodernism, 1946-1964 by Booker, M. Keith

Monsters, Mushroom Clouds, and the Cold War: American Science Fiction and the Roots of Postmodernism, 1946-1964 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780313318733)

Author: M. Keith Booker
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Format: Hardcover
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Monsters, Mushroom Clouds, and the Cold War: American Science Fiction and the Roots of Postmodernism, 1946-1964 by Booker, M. Keith

Monsters, Mushroom Clouds, and the Cold War: American Science Fiction and the Roots of Postmodernism, 1946-1964

$95.00
Monsters, Mushroom Clouds, and the Cold War: American Science Fiction and the Roots of Postmodernism, 1946-1964 by Booker, M. Keith

Monsters, Mushroom Clouds, and the Cold War: American Science Fiction and the Roots of Postmodernism, 1946-1964

$95.00
Format: Hardcover
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The 1950s are widely regarded as the golden age of American science fiction. This book surveys a wide range of major science fiction novels and films from the long 1950s--the period from 1946 to 1964--when the tensions of the Cold War were at their peak. The American science fiction novels and films of this period clearly reflect Cold War anxieties and tensions through their focus on such themes as alien invasion and nuclear holocaust. In this sense, they resemble the observations of social and cultural critics during the same period.

Meanwhile, American science fiction of the long 1950s also engages its historical and political contexts through an interrogation of phenomena, such as alienation and routinization, that can be seen as consequences of the development of American capitalism during this period. This economic trend is part of the rise of the global phenomenon that Marxist theorists have called late capitalism. Thus, American science fiction during this period reflects the rise of late capitalism and participates in the beginnings of postmodernism, described by Frederic Jameson as the cultural logic of late capitalism.

Author: M. Keith Booker
ISBN-10: 0313318735
ISBN-13: 9780313318733
Publisher: Praeger
Language: English
Published: 05/30/2001
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.62h x 6.44w x 0.78d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 12/01/2001 pg. 680
Reference and Research Bk News 11/01/2001 pg. 233
By M. Keith Booker
By M. Keith Booker
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M. KEITH BOOKER is Professor of English at the University of Arkansas./e His many books include The Dystopian Impulse in Modern Literature: Fiction as Social Criticism (1994), Dystopian Fiction: A Theory and Research Guide (1994), Bakhtin, Stalin, and Modern Russian Fiction: Carnival, Dialogism, and History (1995), The Modern British Novel of the Left: A Research Guide (1998), The Modern American Novel of the Left: A Research Guide (1999), Film and the American Left: A Research Guide (1999), and Ulysses, Capitalism, and Colonialism: Reading Joyce after the Cold War (2000), all available from Greenwood Press.

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