The politics of independence: The China Syndrome (1979), Hollywood liberals and antinuclear campaigning

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dc.contributor.authorKrämer, Peter
dc.date.accessioned2018-04-18T09:17:12Z
dc.date.available2018-04-18T09:17:12Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.description.abstractThis article draws, among other things, on press clippings files and scripts found in various archives to reconstruct the complex production history, the marketing and the critical reception of the nuclear thriller The China Syndrome (1979). It shows that with this project, several politically motivated filmmakers, most notably Jane Fonda, who starred in the film and whose company IPC Films produced it, managed to inject their antinuclear stance into Hollywood entertainment. Helped by the accident at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant two weeks into the film’s release, The China Syndrome gained a high profile in public debates about nuclear energy in the U.S. Jane Fonda, together with her then husband Tom Hayden, a founding member of the 1960s “New Left” who had entered mainstream politics in the California Democratic Party by the late 1970s, complemented her involvement in the film with activities aimed at grass roots mobilisation against nuclear power.en
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dc.identifier.citationKrämer, P. (2013) 'The politics of independence: The China Syndrome (1979), Hollywood liberals and antinuclear campaigning', Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media, 6. https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.6.06en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.6.06
dc.identifier.endpage103
dc.identifier.issn2009-4078
dc.identifier.issued6
dc.identifier.journalabbrevAlphaville
dc.identifier.journaltitleAlphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Mediaen
dc.identifier.startpage89
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/5804
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherFilm and Screen Media, University College Corken
dc.relation.urihttp://www.alphavillejournal.com/Issue6/HTML/ArticleKramer.html
dc.rights© 2013, The Author(s)en
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectThe China Syndromeen
dc.subjectHollywooden
dc.subjectPoliticsen
dc.subjectAntinuclearen
dc.subjectGrass rootsen
dc.subjectMobilisationen
dc.titleThe politics of independence: The China Syndrome (1979), Hollywood liberals and antinuclear campaigningen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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