Movies that chronicled post-apocalyptic survival included On the Beach (1959), The World, the Flesh and the Devil (1959), The Time Machine (1960), The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961), and Panic in Year Zero (1962). Strangelove (1964), The Bedford Incident (1965), Fail Safe (1964), Seven Days in May (1964) and The Best Man (1964). arms race with the Soviet Union, presented an existential threat to all of the civilizations that Hollywood captured in features like Dr. The introduction of the hydrogen bomb in 1956 - which was many times more powerful than the atomic bomb - and the escalation of the Cold War and the U.S. The 1960s was the first “golden age” of nuclear war-themed movies, which dramatized the threat literally, rather than allegorically. Following that, ’50s horror and science fiction cinema often allegorized the threat of atomic war and radiation in movies about mutation, such as Them! and Godzilla (both 1954), and alien invasion in films like The Day the Earth Stood Still and The War of the Worlds (both 1953). The Beginning or the End (1947), about the Manhattan Project, is considered the first American film to take on the issue. Hollywood began making movies about nuclear just a few years after the United States used nuclear weapons against Japan. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) And at that moment, the prospect of an instant nuclear holocaust and its aftermath was dramatized in scores of ’80s movies. The early to mid-1980s - the last decade of the Cold War before Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev embarked on his democratic-leaning principles of perestroika and glasnost - was an especially chilly moment in our country’s relations.
Not that long ago, however, we were constantly reminded not only by our news media and politicians but by our entertainment. But with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion and attempted conquest of Ukraine, and the attendant nuclear saber-rattling, we’ve all been reminded that, oh yeah, the world could still blow itself up many times over! Though the possibility never disappeared, we forgot about it, or more accurately, preferred not to think about it in the post-Cold War world.
Decades have elapsed since Americans trembled at the prospect of nuclear war, which once hung over our heads like a sword of Damocles.
0 kommentar(er)
