Unfathomably merciless and powerful, the atomic bomb has left its indelible mark on film. In <EM>Atomic Bomb Cinema,</EM> Jerome F. Shapiro unearths the unspoken legacy of the bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima and its complex aftermath in American and Japanese cinema. <BR><BR>According to Shapiro, a "Bomb film" is never simply an exercise in ideology or paranoia. He examines hundreds of films like <EM>Godzilla, Dr. Strangelove,</EM> and <EM>The</EM> <EM>Terminator</EM> as a body of work held together by ancient narrative and symbolic traditions that extol survival under devastating conditions. Drawing extensively on both English-language and Japanese-language sources, Shapiro argues that such films not only grapple with our nuclear anxieties, but also offer signs of hope that humanity is capable of repairing a damaged and divided world. <BR><BR>www.atomicbombcinema.com