Prosperity and Paranoia. Engineering Atomic Fear with Cold War Images = Prosperidad y paranoia. Diseñando miedo atómico con imágenes de la Guerra Fría

This paper reflects on the way in which certain moving images were used to engineer atomic fear into a manageable emotion in the U.S. during the early Cold War Era. A time of political, technological, economic, and social transformations, which were met with an extensive public relations campaign that relied heavily on the creation and dissemination of tightly controlled images of nuclear tests and models of civic virtue. It focuses on a selection of ephemeral productions to offer a view of the different ideologies at work in early Cold War American propaganda and its dialectic of prosperity and paranoia.

atomic fear; propaganda; cold war; television; prosperity: paranoia; miedo atómico; propaganda; guerra fría; televisión; prosperidad; paranoia

Prosperity and Paranoia. Engineering Atomic Fear with Cold War Images = Prosperidad y paranoia. Diseñando miedo atómico con imágenes de la Guerra Fría Articles