Publisher | Oxford University Press |
ISBN 13 | 9780192846167 |
ISBN 10 | 0192846167 |
Author | David L Pike |
Book Format | Hardcover |
Language | English |
Book Description | A study of the uses in American culture of the image of the post-war fallout shelter in the 1960s and 1980s that offers ways of understanding those decades and speaks directly to contemporary issues around borders, migration, and national, regional, |
About the Author | David L. Pike has taught in the Department of Literature at American University since 1995. He is the author of Passage through Hell: Modernist Descents, Medieval Underworlds; Subterranean Cities: The World beneath Paris and London 1800-1945; Metropolis on the Styx: The Underworlds of Modern Urban Culture, 1800-2001; Canadian Cinema since the 1980s: At the Heart of the World; and articles on medieval literature, modernism, film, neo-Victorianism, subterranea, urban fantasy, global urban culture, and Paris and London. He is co-author of Corruption Plots: Stories, Ethics, and Publics of the Late Capitalist City and of Literature: A World of Writing, and co-general editor of the Longman Anthology of World Literature. |
Publication Date | 2022-03-03 |
Number of Pages | 320 pages |
Cold War Space and Culture in the 1960s and 1980s: The Bunkered Decades
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