Homemaking for the Apocalypse

Homemaking for the Apocalypse

Domesticating Horror in Atomic Age Literature & Media

Anderson, Jill E.

Taylor & Francis Ltd

04/2021

208

Dura

Inglês

9781138304628

15 a 20 dias

426

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Introduction: Homemaking for the Apocalypse: Compulsory Normativity, Banality, and Horror

Chapter 1: Die, Dig, or Get Out; Or, Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

Chapter 2: "You can Protect Your Family": Common Prudence, Survival Insurance, and Fallout Shelters

Chapter 3: The Madonna of the Suburbs: The Ludicrous Horrors of Everyday Life

Chapter 4: "...we are already but one step removed from pod people": Compulsory Ableism and the Revenge of the Lawn in Postwar Suburbia

Chapter 5: Population Bombs & Baby Boom: Overpopulation as Apocalypse

Conclusion: Apocalypse Now-ish: (Still) Domesticating Horror
American Culture;American Literature;nuclear annihilation;domesticity;feminism;homespace;conformity;rhetoric;domestic practices;social anxieties;normality;consumption;control;chaos;dred;horror stories;film;television;disempowerment;unnatural;proliferation;American psyche;queer theory;reproduction;suburbia;albeism;plants;sci-fi;science fiction;comics;comic books;capitalism;phobia;communism;consumerism;homemaking;cold war;constant threat;apocalypse;social order;social unrest;Shirley Jackson;The Sundial;Raising Demons;Jane Kerr;Please don't eat the daisies;The Shadow on the Hearth;The Twilight Zone;Fairfield Osborn;Our Plundered Planet;The Population Bomb;The Limits to Growth;Donella Meadows;The Stepford Wives;Revolutionary Road;The New West;Greener than You Think;The Genocides;Invasion of the Body Snatchers;Swamp Thing;Seduction of the Innocent;Frederic Wertham;Tales from the Crypt;Weird Science;American Horror Story;Atomic age conformity;Fallout shelter debate;Civil defense literature