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“We Don’t Wanna Be Radiated”: Documentary Film and the Evolving Rhetoric of Nuclear Energy Activism (2012)

Auteur	Lisa Lynch
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Datum	2012
Classificatie	3.01.2.19/21 (VS - ANTIKERNENERGIEBEWEGING/ACTIES/REPRESSIE)
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Lisa Lynch
“We Don’t Wanna Be Radiated”:
Documentary Film and the Evolving Rhetoric of Nuclear Energy Activism
American Literature, Volume 84, Number 2, June 2012
© 2012 by Duke University Press

In what follows, I attempt to unpack the divergence between the
symbolic imaginary of nuclear power and the imaginative terrain
of environmentalism through a look at documentary i lm about the
civilian nuclear industry. I first analyze several films about US anti-
reactor activism produced in the 1970s and 1980s, showing how they
manifest the codependence of antireactor activism and environmentalism.
I then turn to recent films that look more broadly at the industrial
processes involved in nuclear power creation. Drawing on disparate
strands of scholarly inquiry—including ecocriticism, documentary
theory, and science studies—I read these newer documentaries to
illuminate how changing political, material, and economic realities
have reshaped how opponents of nuclear energy imagine the relationships
between body, place, and planet.

The primary intention of this essay is thus to expand the horizons of
ecocriticism while also providing a fresh consideration of the relationship
between environmentalism and the antireactor movement. That
being said, it is my hope that this essay will serve to rescue several
films from critical obscurity. Although i ctional i lms about nuclear
warfare and nuclear power have been studied by media scholars and
nuclear critics,7 documentaries about the antinuclear movement have
received little attention. This is in large part because they are classed
as realist political documentaries, a i lm genre long ignored by the
academy.

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