Nuclear anxiety in film
The aim of the paper is to discuss the issue around nuclear war and film. During the end of world war 2 Hollywood began to produce a streamline of films, which anticipated the coming of a third world war (Nuclear War). Films such as Dr. Strangelove, When the Wind Blows, Dreams, The Day after, War Games, On The Beach etc. What I will be studying is how these films tend to fall into 3 particular categories. The first category deals with "The preparation for a supposed Nuclear attack or war." We will be looking at the film War Games directed by John Badham as our case study. The second category concerns the experiences of a nuclear war. We will be looking at the film When the Wind Blows directed by Jimmy T. Murakami.The third category deals with the aftermath and what happens long after a nuclear war. For this we shall be using the Japanese director Akira Kurosawa's film Dreams as our case study.All in all what I will be aiming to discover in these films is how atomic bomb victims are treated within motion picture before during and after the catastrophe. How is the subject of nuclear warfare treated within motion pictures and eventually how do the Hollywood nuclear motion pictures differ to that of the Japane
It questions the audience's way of seeing. I aim to firstly look at what Nuclear war is about in terms of its effects and consequences. They work hand in hand to stir up the trauma in the film. The topics, which I venture on to such as trauma and repression as well as filmic codes and camera techniques, must always refer back to these three categories of Preparation, Experience and Consequence/Aftermath. Theoretical Approach and Literature ReviewWhen thinking through my essay I want to strongly keep my focus on the three particular categories mentioned. Strangelove, Shadow Makers What I hope to do is to briefly understand the political statistics as well as the international relational theory and see how these films apply them within the three categories. Once all this has been done we shall come to see how these films are merely a questioning of both death and survival. edu/sfs/backissues/61/broderick61art. The two film theorist, which I have chosen are Mick Broderick's Surviving Armageddon: Beyond The Imagination of Disaster and Paul Brians. How do the Japanese deal with their Nagasaki and Hiroshima issue? Dreams touches on questions surrounding what would happen long after a nuclear war. They are not my main focus but they are very vital to my essay because they help us understand what the films are talking about and address the issues, which the films aim to represent for instance the blast effect, heat effect and fall out. They are extremely literal and to the point unlike When the Wind Blows and Akira Kurosawa's Dreams. It must be understood that when addressing this I shall be speaking in terms of theoretical predictions for as we know the only experience of nuclear war was arguably in Japan. It is very psychological and deals with film on a subconscious level. I want to understand these filmic codes in regards to this.
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Japanese Rationale,
Kurosawa's Dreams,
War Games,
Dreams Methodology,
Experience Consequence/Aftermath,
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nuclear war,
Akira Kurosawa's,
Nicholas Meyer's,
Hollywood Narrative,
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