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.TRANSCRIPT
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