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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
Peer reviewedDowling, John – Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 1977
Provides a nuclear film bibliography grouped into the areas of: building and using the bomb; living with the bomb; and living with nuclear power. These films are for mature high school students and older. (MLH)
Descriptors: Atomic Theory, Bibliographies, College Science, Energy
