![]() ![]() In most of the films, scientists and/or the military managed to vanquish the enemy, offering reassurance that these threats could be overcome. By dislocating the narratives to different times and/or different worlds, the science fiction genre catered to public anxiety about the bomb and communism. Controversy over the development of atomic weapons and potential consequences had been repressed in public debates and in other film genres, 2 but it could be recast in stories about mutant ants and grasshoppers, pods that took over people's minds, space travel, and the nuclear destruction of civilizations on other planets. policies and expressions of fear about national security during the Cold War, the producers of science fiction films were generally left alone by government regulators and the private groups that tried to shape public opinion. Although both government and private groups discouraged criticism of U.S. These fears were expressed in various guises, such as aliens using mind control, monstrous mutants unleashed by radioactive fallout, radiation's terrible effects on human life, and scientists obsessed with dangerous experiments. ![]() Through imaginative narratives and special effects, hundreds (by one estimate, five hundred film features and shorts were produced between 19) 1 of science fiction films presented indirect expressions of anxiety about the possibility of a nuclear holocaust or a Communist invasion of America. Science fiction films became a major Hollywood genre in the 1950s. 8 Science Fiction Films and Cold War Anxiety Extraterrestrial Travel Alien Invasion and Infiltration Mutants, Metamorphosis, and Resurrection of Extinct Species Near Annihilation or the End of the Earth Conclusion ![]()
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