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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
Barwis, Gail L. – 1981
A study examined the coverage of the scientific aspects of the atomic bomb in four representative newspapers (New York "Times," New York "Herald Tribune," Chicago "Daily Tribune," and Boston "Daily Globe") and in 14 general mass circulation magazines in the time period immediately following the dropping of the bomb. Among the conclusions of the…
Descriptors: Censorship, Content Analysis, Freedom of Speech, Journalism
