Contributor
Molella, Arthur P., 1944- editor.
ImprintPittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2019]
Descriptionx, 290 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Note:Expo '58: Nucleus for a new Europe / Stuart W. Leslie and Joris Mercelis -- Soviet-American rivalry at Expo '58 / Anthony Swift -- Atoms for peace in Brussels and Osaka: Worlds fairs and the shaping of Japanese attitudes to nuclear power / Morris Low -- Bringing the fair to town: Harrison "Buzz" Price and international expositions in the United States after 1945 / James D. Skee -- "The future isn't what it used to be": optimism and anxiety, 1939 and 1964 / Robert H. Kargon -- 1964 and the state of the city / Katie Uva -- Advancing an optimistic technological narrative in an age of skepticism: General Electric and Walt Disney's Progressland at the 1964-1965 New York World's Fair / Michael Demeter -- The human spirit in an age of machines: the pietà and the computer at the 1964-1965 New York World's Fair / Arthur P. Mollela -- Cold War food: consumption and technology at the New York World's Fair, 1964-1965 / Emanuela Scarpellini -- Billy Graham: the fifth dimension at the 1964-1965 New York World's Fair / Mary Ann Borden -- "Massy and Classy": dressing American women at Expo '67 / Daniela Sheinin -- "The changing role of women in a changing world": universal womanhood at HemisFair '68 / Abigail M. Markwyn -- A garden city for progress and harmony: Singapore at the Osaka 1970 expo / Ellan F. Spero -- Cultural diplomacy down under: US sports diplomacy at Brisbane's Expo 88 / Martin J. Manning -- The Cold War, a cool medium, and the postmodern death of World Expos / Luca Massida -- Does the World's Fair still matter? Discovering new worlds after 1989 / Scott Gabriel Knowles.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-276) and index.
Note:The post-World War II science-based technological revolution inevitably found its way into almost all international expositions with displays on atomic energy, space exploration, transportation, communications, and computers. Major advancements in Cold War science and technology helped to shape new visions of utopian futures, the stock-in-trade of world's fairs. From the 1940s to the 1980s, expositions in the United States and around the world, from Brussels to Osaka to Brisbane, mirrored Cold War culture in a variety of ways, and also played an active role in shaping it. This volume illustrates the cultural change and strain spurred by the Cold War, a disruptive period of scientific and technological progress that ignited growing concern over the impact of such progress on the environment and humanistic and spiritual values. Through the lens of world's fairs, contributors across disciplines offer an integrated exploration of the US-USSR rivalry from a global perspective and in the context of broader social and cultural phenomena-faith and religion, gender and family relations, urbanization and urban planning, fashion, modernization, and national identity-all of which were fundamentally reshaped by tensions and anxieties of the Atomic Age.
