"What Works": Instrumentalism, Ideology, and Nostalgia in Post-Cold War Culture

SMITH, Jeffrey Alan. "What Works": Instrumentalism, Ideology, and Nostalgia in Post-Cold War Culture. In Blouin, Michael. The Silence of Fallout: Nuclear Criticism in a Post-Cold War World. Newcastle on Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013, s. 16-44. ISBN 1-4438-4479-9.

Základní údaje

Originální název

"What Works": Instrumentalism, Ideology, and Nostalgia in Post-Cold War Culture

Název česky

"Co funguje": instrumentalism, ideologie, a Nostalgie v Post-Cold War kultury

Autoři

SMITH, Jeffrey Alan

Vydání

Newcastle on Tyne, UK, The Silence of Fallout: Nuclear Criticism in a Post-Cold War World, od s. 16-44, 29 s. 2013

Nakladatel

Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Kapitola resp. kapitoly v odborné knize

Obor

50802 Media and socio-cultural communication

Stát vydavatele

Spojené státy

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Forma vydání

tištěná verze "print"

Odkazy

URL, URL

Označené pro přenos do RIV

Ano

Kód RIV

RIV/00216224:14210/13:00074911

Organizační jednotka

Filozofická fakulta

ISBN

1-4438-4479-9

Klíčová slova anglicky

nuclear criticism; nuclear weapons; literary theory; ideology

Štítky

rivok

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam

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Anotace

V originále

Nuclear Criticism was a trend in literary theory that emerged most prominently in the 1980s. While there has been a tendency to remain "silent" in the post-Cold War world, it is essential to temper this suggestion by recognizing scholars who continue to take up questions posed by Nuclear Criticism. This volume explores various contemporary manifestations of nuclear anxiety and advocacy as well as the periodic gaps where critical engagement seems to grow inaudible. The approach is one of reconciliation, an undercurrent of trying to bring the humanities, and theory specifically, into the realm of the "real world," of the practical -- and urgent -- matters plaguing the citizens of a nuclear age. This opening chapter frames the collection by discussing the interrelated roles of instrumentalism, ideology, and nostalgia in the construction of nuclear discourses, arguing that if one role of the critic is to undo such constructions, that job is as important now as it was during the Cold War, or ever. It may be from these traversals of disciplinary bounds -- from theory to cultural studies to film studies and beyond -- that we can recognize a significant future for Nuclear Criticism.