| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 107.5

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Jerome F. Shapiro. Atomic Bomb Cinema: The Apocalyptic Imagination on Film. New York: Routledge. 2002. Pp. x, 386. Cloth $85.00, paper $24.95.

Jerome F. Shapiro here embarks on the daunting task of rehabilitating science fiction films in general, and atomic bomb films in particular, from the critical purgatory that they have traditionally occupied. This book represents a considerable expansion on Mick Broderick's Nuclear Movies (1991) and includes an extensive filmography. The sheer number of often very obscure films examined by Shapiro is impressive, as is his scope, ranging from what Shapiro calls "prototypical bomb films" in the pre-1945 era up to the present. Less impressive is Shapiro's analysis; in making his case for a genre of films for which he obviously cares, he sometimes advances extravagant claims—often with little in the way of evidence—for films of only modest accomplishments. . . .

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