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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)”
“The movement against Project Chariot by Environmentalists, Scientists, and Alaska Natives”
Visions of Able Archer 83: Made for T.V. Nuclear Holocaust and Reaganite Strategic Discourse
“Post-WWII Development of Nuclear Weapons in Pakistan”
Pete Sabo
Topic Question: If 80% of Americans initially supported the dropping of nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, then how did oppositional voices in the media, specifically focusing on The Nation, dissent the mainstream support of nuclear proliferation?
Title: “Nuclear Dissent: The Nation Magazine as Oppositional Media Following the Beginning of the Atomic Age.”
I cannot figure out how to register for this site, so I will post my topic as a comment to this post.
Adekemi Gbadebo: “Cold War Cinema: How Films Influenced the Public’s Feelings toward the War”
Made For T.V. Nuclear Holocaust and Reaganite Discourse
Ricky Turner: “Equations of Sexual Deviance with Weakness and Communism in Cold War American News Media (focusing on coverage of spies)”
Sexuality and Bomb (I want to trace the shift of gender images associated with bomb by looking at each nuclear testing and its name through the Degital Security Archive.)
Sexuality an Bomb (I want to trace the shift of gender images associated with bomb by looking at each nuclear testing and its name through the Degital Security Archive.)
Kate Phillips “Women Against the Bomb: Women in the Antinuclear Movement”
Jacob Lamoureux: “How citizen activism influenced political policy regarding nuclear weapons in the early Cold War era”.
Elizabeth Huff: “Minority populations and the bomb:Alaska, Nevada, and the Pacific”
Elizabeth Huff: “Minority populations and the bomb: Alaska, Nevada, and the Pacific”
The Bomb in the Music and Poetry of Bob Dylan
I also wanted to look at the bomb in the broader context of the folk music revival but it looks like Allison is doing that as well.
Environmental impacts of nuclear testing on minority communites in the Soviet Union
“A comparison of the restructuring of the family unit in America with that of the Soviet Union”
“Godzilla Warfare: Godzilla as a nuclear icon through contemporary literature and cinema.”
“An Examination of Godzilla as a nuclear icon through contemporary cinema and literature.”
“The first test of a nuclear weapon by the people’s republic of China”
Depictions of nuclear weapons and technology in Japanese and American popular entertainment. specifically godzilla, spider-man, gundam:seed, terminator 2
comparing the representation of nuclear science in science fiction at the period right after hiroshima to before the end of the cold war.
The scientists of the Manhatten Project and their moral sentiments toward their work.
Project: “Giant Robots: Japanese Allusions to the Atom Bomb” Looking at old manga and anime series focused on Robots and putting them in the context of nuclear weapons development.
“Native peoples, nuclear testing and activism”
“Doctor Atomic” Looking at Los Alamos and Oppenheimer