https://padlet.com/biancawang1_1/jigr30vo3aqd Made with the help of a typing monkey en-us 2018-05-10 12:46:24 UTC 2025-10-09 07:20:04 UTC hello@padlet.com biancawang1_1 https://padlet.com/biancawang1_1/jigr30vo3aqd/wish/259601700 "Through imaginative narratives and special effects, hundreds... of science fiction films presented indirect expressions of anxiety about the possibility of a nuclear holocaust or a Communist invasion of America."]]> 2018-05-10 13:19:09 UTC https://padlet.com/biancawang1_1/jigr30vo3aqd/wish/259601700 biancawang1_1 https://padlet.com/biancawang1_1/jigr30vo3aqd/wish/259939937 A classic example is provided by Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Filmed in 1956, it is the best of several movies... in which aliens take over the minds and bodies of Earthlings, reflecting a widespread American fear of communist subversion at the time. Cold, ruthless, human-looking but utterly emotionless aliens perfectly encapsulated America’s paranoid vision of the threat of communism.]]> 2018-05-11 13:38:43 UTC https://padlet.com/biancawang1_1/jigr30vo3aqd/wish/259939937 biancawang1_1 https://padlet.com/biancawang1_1/jigr30vo3aqd/wish/259942006 In later films, cold war paranoia was replaced by a more direct fear – that of nuclear destruction. An early, classic example was provided by Val Guest’s The Day the Earth Caught Fire, in which a Fleet Street reporter uncovers a terrible secret: that Russian and American A-bomb test explosions have destabilized our planet’s orbit and sent it spiraling towards the Sun.]]> 2018-05-11 13:44:11 UTC https://padlet.com/biancawang1_1/jigr30vo3aqd/wish/259942006 biancawang1_1 https://padlet.com/biancawang1_1/jigr30vo3aqd/wish/260446189 The director of Birmingham Science City, Dr. Pam Waddell, thinks there might be a third, more diplomatic possibility: "While films and TV can be acknowledged as creating confusion, it is also worth highlighting how advanced science has now become and many things deemed only possible in fiction have now become reality or are nearing creation due to the advancements of science."]]> 2018-05-14 13:06:15 UTC https://padlet.com/biancawang1_1/jigr30vo3aqd/wish/260446189 biancawang1_1 https://padlet.com/biancawang1_1/jigr30vo3aqd/wish/260449204 cinema can sometimes be both a powerful tool of persuasion while remaining a form of every day escapism during the tense times.]]> 2018-05-14 13:13:22 UTC https://padlet.com/biancawang1_1/jigr30vo3aqd/wish/260449204 biancawang1_1 https://padlet.com/biancawang1_1/jigr30vo3aqd/wish/260887929 "At the height of the Cold War, a thin line separated science from science fiction, as scientists raced to develop new doomsday weapons"]]> 2018-05-15 15:09:11 UTC https://padlet.com/biancawang1_1/jigr30vo3aqd/wish/260887929 biancawang1_1 https://padlet.com/biancawang1_1/jigr30vo3aqd/wish/261204374 "science fiction is always political as it has the power to stage contemporary problems through the lens of impossible events; popular science fiction imagines theoretical futures arising out of present conditions."

"the genre presupposes spectacular visuals and exaggerated plots, these in combination of paranoid social attitudes result in the most widely criticised and adored period of early science fiction cinema, the 1950s and early 1960s."

"Sontag stated the paranoid claims of contemporary science fiction stem from the greater collective nightmare: fears of the unknown, foreign invasion, and enemies from within."]]> 2018-05-16 13:21:20 UTC https://padlet.com/biancawang1_1/jigr30vo3aqd/wish/261204374 biancawang1_1 https://padlet.com/biancawang1_1/jigr30vo3aqd/wish/261403802 Postwar Soviet expansionism in Eastern Europe fueled many Americans’ fears of a Russian plan to control the world.]]> 2018-05-16 23:03:48 UTC https://padlet.com/biancawang1_1/jigr30vo3aqd/wish/261403802 biancawang1_1 https://padlet.com/biancawang1_1/jigr30vo3aqd/wish/261410047 The 1950s and 1960s saw an epidemic of popular films that horrified moviegoers with depictions of nuclear devastation and mutant creatures. In these and other ways, the Cold War was a constant presence in Americans’ everyday lives.]]> 2018-05-16 23:47:38 UTC https://padlet.com/biancawang1_1/jigr30vo3aqd/wish/261410047 biancawang1_1 https://padlet.com/biancawang1_1/jigr30vo3aqd/wish/261897477 http://www.bigshinyrobot.com/60308/red-scare-and-sci-fi-1950s/]]> 2018-05-18 12:47:18 UTC https://padlet.com/biancawang1_1/jigr30vo3aqd/wish/261897477 biancawang1_1 https://padlet.com/biancawang1_1/jigr30vo3aqd/wish/262135774 Alien Invasion and Infiltration
Mutants, Metamorphosis, and Resurrection of Extinct Species
Near Annihilation or the End of the Earth
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Science Fiction Films and Cold War Anxiety - Dictionary definition of Science Fiction Films and Cold War Anxiety | Encyclopedia.com: FREE online dictionary ]]> 2018-05-19 23:20:20 UTC https://padlet.com/biancawang1_1/jigr30vo3aqd/wish/262135774