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The Romance of Extinction: Nuclear War Films

February 1, 2013 By Wyn Wachhorst Leave a Comment

  Of all the contrived analyses that cling to science fiction films of the fifties—McCarthyist body snatchers, Russians from Mars, the Bomb in the guise of Godzilla—the most pervasive has been the anemic notion that viewers sublimated the Bomb as the stereotypical Victorians did sex.  The … [Read more...]

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