Nov

10

CAST/EAST241 Paper Topics

November 10, 2008 | 25 Comments

Living with the Bomb Paper Topics
Fall, 2008

Cory Ellen Boberg “Cinematic Representations of Hiroshima and the Manhattan Project”
Films: Black Rain; Above and Beyond”

Allison Chomet “The American Folk Music Revival as an anti-nuclear movement.”

Coulter Heavenrich “The Atomic Bomb in Japanese and American Prose Science Fiction.” (early science fiction–Heinlein)

Case Lovell “The Eroticization of Total War and The Bomb in the Artwork and Poems of American Servicemen.”

Pete Sabo:
Title: “Nuclear Dissent: The Nation Magazine as Oppositional Media in the Atomic Age”
Topic Question: If 80% of Americans supported the use of nuclear bombs, then how did oppositional media dissent the mainstream opinion.
Calder Singer “Ötomo’s AKIRA and 1980s Japanese Thought”

Sarah Sawtelle “The movement against Project Chariot by Environmentalists, Scientists, and Alaska Natives”

Joshua Birch “Visions of Able Archer 83: Made for T.V. Nuclear Holocaust and Reaganite Strategic Discourse”

Vijeta Sathyaraj,
“Post-WWII Development of Nuclear Weapons in Pakistan”

Ricky Turner: “Equations of Sexual Deviance with Weakness and Communism in Cold War American News Media (focusing on coverage of spies)”

Jun

4

New Blog for CAST/EAST241 Living with the Bomb Fall

June 4, 2008 | 1 Comment

The question is how can we use this Wordpress for the Bomb class? What can we do with the Blog? Discussion? Projects? Bibliography?


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