Film Studies 1022 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Waldorf Statement, Ned Scott, Plantlife
10 Jan 2017
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Duck and cover: 1950s sci-fi cinema and atomic age paranoia. The sociopolitical context is important to the film. Children learned to duck and cover in school. Anyone daring to speak out on behalf of equality was labeled a communist. Campaign of fear against anyone with leftist leanings. The government asked hollywood to be careful, because they understood the influence the media had on the public. They were paranoid about leftist ideals being put into movies. Any movie speaking about social injustice of any kind was immediately labeled as communist propaganda. Ten writers and producers who refused to be involved, seeing it as their constitutional right to say nothing. They were fired and denounced by all major studio heads in the. , the giant ants are the result of genetic mutation caused by the atomic bomb. The ants resemble humans in a few specific, negative ways. The fear of the bomb and of the communists are conflated in these monstrous ants.
