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With admirable scope and lucidity, <i>Monsters in the Machine</i> insightfully analyzes sci-fi films of the postwar period to expose the cultural politics and political ethos of an era dominated by the aura of World War II and the nuclear shadow it cast over Henry Luce s American Century. Providing rich touchstones for the major tensions and contradictions that informed the grotesque mechanisms of the Cold War, <i>Monsters in the Machine</i> should be required reading for any course on American Cold War culture. Alan Nadel, author of <i>Containment Culture: American Narratives, Postmodernism, and the Atomic Age</i> and <i>Flatlining on the Field of Dreams: Cultural Narratives in the Films of President Reagan s America</i></p>

With admirable scope and lucidity, Monsters in the Machine insightfully analyzes sci-fi films of the postwar period to expose the cultural politics and political ethos of an era dominated by the aura of World War II and the nuclear shadow it cast over Henry Luce s American Century. Providing rich touchstones for the major tensions and contradictions that informed the grotesque mechanisms of the Cold War, Monsters in the Machine should be required reading for any course on American Cold War culture. Alan Nadel, author of Containment Culture: American Narratives, Postmodernism, and the Atomic Age and Flatlining on the Field of Dreams: Cultural Narratives in the Films of President Reagan s America

With admirable scope and lucidity, <i>Monsters in the Machine</i> insightfully analyzes sci-fi films of the postwar period to expose the cultural politics and political ethos of an era dominated by the aura of World War II and the nuclear shadow it cast over Henry Luce's 'American Century.' Providing rich touchstones for the major tensions and contradictions that informed the grotesque mechanisms of the Cold War, <i>Monsters in the Machine</i> should be required reading for any course on American Cold War culture. --Alan Nadel, author of <i>Containment Culture: American Narratives, Postmodernism, and the Atomic Age</i> and <i>Flatlining on the Field of Dreams: Cultural Narratives in the Films of President Reagan's America</i></p>

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Steffen Hantke, Seoul, South Korea, has written on contemporary literature, film, and culture. He is author of Conspiracy and Paranoia in Contemporary Literature, as well as editor of Horror Film: Creating and Marketing Fear and American Horror Film: The Genre at the Turn of the Millennium, both published by University Press of Mississippi.

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