During the Cold War and Red Scare era, America’s teenagers flocked to cinemas, drive-in and “hard-top” alike, to watch science fiction and horror movies that in retrospect seem like a virtual dream diary of their generation’s specific fears about nuclear proliferation, the lightning-pace of scientific change, and other confounding forms of progress. This series presents some of the most revelatory movies of that era – rich texts bursting with the zeitgeist.
