Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer: An Atomic Gaze
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Authors
Haas, Elizabeth
Issue Date
2025-04-04
Type
Other
Language
en_US
Keywords
Atomic Gaze , Film Theory and Visual Culture , Power, Surveillance, and the Gaze , Nuclear Imagery in Cinema
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Abstract
The 2023 film Oppenheimer dramatizes the life story of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the physicist who headed the American effort to develop the atomic bombs that brought an end to World War II and decimated Japanese civilians in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, ushering in the nuclear age. The film cuts back and forth between his life story as a gifted, budding scientist to the Red Scare 1950s when his government security clearance is revoked over concern for his former associations with Communists and his opposition to the hydrogen bomb.
Description
UB Rise 2025
College of Science and Society