Screening Power: Harry Truman and the Nuclear Leviathan (ENG)

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  • dc.contributor.author Freda, Isabelle
  • dc.date.accessioned 2024-10-17T08:47:34Z
  • dc.date.available 2024-10-17T08:47:34Z
  • dc.date.issued 2019
  • dc.date.modified 2019-11-29T16:03:02Z
  • dc.description.abstract Harry Truman’s succession to the United States presidency upon Franklin Roosevelt’s death in 1945 thrust an obscure and inexperienced politician into the center of one of the 20th century’s most critical historical moment: the final months of World War II, as the United States was preparing to deploy nuclear weapons for the first time. Truman’s clear unequalness (in both image and substance) to the tasks at hand, in juxtaposition with the epic scale of the tasks themselves, provides a unique exposure of the illusory nature of presidential authority in the Nuclear Age. Using Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan as a means of delineating the theory and image of political sovereignty, this essay examines three distinct moments from the early days of Truman’s administration that serve to elucidate the absence of presidential power and control that continues to this day to underlie the media apparatus that defines the American presidency.
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  • dc.identifier http://www.raco.cat/index.php/Comparativecinema/article/view/cc.2019.v7.i12.03
  • dc.identifier 2604-9821
  • dc.identifier 10.31009/cc.2019.v7.i12.03
  • dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/62239
  • dc.language.iso eng
  • dc.publisher Universitat Pompeu Fabra
  • dc.relation.haspart Comparative Cinema, 2019, Vol. 7, Núm. 12 (2019): Iconographies in the public sphere. Fiction devices in the representation of power, p. 38-52
  • dc.relation.haspart Comparative Cinema, 2019, Vol 7, No 12 (2019): Iconographies in the public sphere. Fiction devices in the representation of power, p. 38-52
  • dc.relation.haspart Comparative Cinema, 2019, Vol. 7, Núm. 12 (2019): Iconographies in the public sphere. Fiction devices in the representation of power, p. 38-52
  • dc.relation.haspart http://www.raco.cat/index.php/Comparativecinema/article/view/cc.2019.v7.i12.03/446625
  • dc.rights.uri info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
  • dc.source.uri RACO (Revistes Catalanes amb Accés Obert)
  • dc.title Screening Power: Harry Truman and the Nuclear Leviathan (ENG)
  • dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
  • dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion

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