Davis Stages of Emergency

Cold War Nuclear Civil Defense
1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8963-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 456 Seiten

Cultural history of the nuclear civil defense excercises in the US, Canada, and the UK, which emphasizes the performative aspect of the staged drills and evacuations.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Davis, Tracy C.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theatergeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

Abbreviations xiii

Introduction 1

Part I: Directing Apocalypse

1. Civil Defense Concepts and Planning 9

2. Rehearsals for Nuclear War 58

Part II: Act Your Part: The Private Citizen on the Public Stage

3. The Psychology of Vulnerability 105

4. Sheltering 127

5. Get Out of Town! 158

6. Communications 181

7. Acting Out Injury 198

Part III: Covert Stages: The "Public Sector" Rehearses in Private

8. Crisis Play 223

9. International Play 247

10. Disaster Welfare 261

11. Continuity of Government 287

12. Computer Play 312

Afterword:Dismantling Civil Defense 331

Appendix: Cold War and Civil Defense Time Line 339

Notes 351

Works Cited 401

Index 429

Über Autor(innen)

Tracy C. Davis is Barber Professor of Performing Arts and Professor of English and Theatre at Northwestern University. She is the author of The Economics of the British Stage 1800–1914; George Bernard Shaw and the Socialist Theatre; and Actresses as Working Women: Their Social Identity in Victorian Culture.