"Survival is your business": Engineering ruins and affect in nuclear America

Cultural Anthropology

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 361-398

  Masco, Joseph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Affect; Film; Nuclear age; Ruins; Security state; Visual culture; War

Indexed keywords

EID: 44049097273     PISSN: 08867356     EISSN: 15481360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1360.2008.00012.x     Document Type: Article

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