After the End: Cold War Culture and Apocalyptic Imaginations in the Twenty-First Century

by David L. Pike

After the End argues that the cultural imaginaries and practices of the Cold War continue to deeply shape the present in profound but largely unnoticed ways across the global North and in the global South. The argument draws examples from literature and literary criticism, film, music, the historical and social scientific record and past and present physical sites to consider the bunker as a material form, an image and as a fantasy that took shape...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1526174049
• ISBN13: 9781526174048
• Release Date: April 2024
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.2"