Table of Contents:
  • 1 1895 to 1945: Prototypical bomb films
  • 2 1945 to 1949: The initial elation after Hiroshima amd Nagasaki
  • 3 1950 to 1963, Part 1: A complex growth industry
  • 4 1950 to 1963, Part II: Cold war fantasies
  • 5 1964 to 1979: Losing faith in social institutions
  • 6 1980 to 1989: The Reagan era
  • 7 1990 to 2001: The post-cold war years
  • 8 1945 to 2001: Japan's atomic bomb cinema
  • Demonic cinema
  • SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • FILMOGRAPHY.