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Peer reviewedTaylor, Bryan C. – Critical Studies in Mass Communication, 1993
Examines the ironic "problems" of the 1989 Hollywood film "Fat Man and Little Boy" (portraying the construction of the atomic bomb at the Los Alamos Laboratory during World War II) to demonstrate the ideological operations of nuclear texts, and the role of the nuclear weapons organization as a symbolic form in cultural…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Film Criticism, Films, Higher Education
