Abstract
This essay uses nuclear criticism, particularly Jacques Derrida's "No Apocalypse, Not Now" to read Fritz Lang's The Big Heat (1953) as a Cold War allegory concerned with the threat to civilization posed by atomic culture.
Recommended Citation
Metz, Walter C. ""Keep the coffee hot, Hugo": Nuclear Trauma in Fritz Lang's The Big Heat (1953)." Film Criticism 21, No. 3 (Spring 1997): 43-65.
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