the war game and the apocalyptic imagination

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Visual accompaniment to a talk given at the University of Nebraska, Kearney in October 2013.

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The War Game and the Apocalyptic Imagination

Kevin M. Flanagan, 2013.

“too horrifying for the medium of broadcasting”

“more potential nuclear targets per acre of land mass than any other country in the

world.”

The Anchored Camera

Points of View

Obscured Line of Sight/Reminder of Off-Screen Space

M.A.D.

The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (Easter Rally, 1961)

Via Ap/Wodu Media

Imagining Disaster

Disaster Behavior

Martial Law in The War Game (before an execution)

Fantasies of Lost Control

The Apocalypse, Instigated from Without

Culloden (1964, BBC)

Culloden

The War Game

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