Научната фантастика и социалните промени във Великобритания. („Селото на прокълнатите“ и „Денят, в който Земята се запали“)
Science fiction and social changes in Great Britain (“Village of the damned” and “The day earth caught fire)”
Author(s): Magdalena VlastanovaSubject(s): History, Language and Literature Studies, Cultural history, Studies of Literature, Military history, Political history, Recent History (1900 till today), Special Historiographies:, Post-War period (1950 - 1989), Cold-War History, British Literature
Published by: Регионален исторически музей – Плевен
Keywords: Science Fiction; movies; Great Britain; Cold War; “The Day Earth Caught Fire”; “Village of the Damned”; society
Summary/Abstract: The report’s thesis illustrates how science fiction represents changing in British society’s hierarchy and popular feminine and masculine role’s in it in late 1950s and early 1960s. Two British films from the highest point of genre, between 1953 and 1963, are examined, because of their inner messages. The main methods of working are comparison and analysis. The concrete tasks are researching “Village of the Damned” from 1960 and “The Day Earth Caught Fire” from 1961 and to show how they represent new role of Britain in Cold war context.
Journal: Плевенски исторически четения
- Issue Year: 2023
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 347-363
- Page Count: 17
- Language: Bulgarian
