Author:
Pike, David L. (David Lawrence), 1963- author.
Edition Statement:First edition.
ImprintOxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2021.
Descriptionxx, 299 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Note:Introduction: the bunker fantasy before and after the bunkered decades -- In the basement: shelter, suburbia, and the nuclear family -- Back to the cave: tribalism and feral humanity -- The private supershelter: survivalism and self-reliance -- We'll all go together when we go: shelter and community -- Mountain deep: government supershelters -- How to survive the '80s -- Men's action fictions -- Nuclear realism -- Feminist bunker fantasies -- Conclusion: Cold War space and culture since the Cold War.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note:'Cold War Space and Culture in the 1960s and 1980s' studies the two periods in which Americans were actively encouraged to excavate their own backyards while governments the world over exhausted their budgets on fortified super-shelters and megaton bombs. The dreams and nightmares inspired by the spectre of nuclear destruction were expressed in images and forms from comics, movies, and pulp paperbacks to policy documents, protest movements, and survivalist tracts. Illustrated with photographs, artwork, and movie and television stills of real and imagined fallout shelters and other bunker fantasies, David L. Pike's continues his decades-long exploration of the meanings of modern undergrounds.
