@ARTICLE{10.21494/ISTE.OP.2021.0739, TITLE={Hollywood, Atom and Cold War. Between Detente and Terror}, AUTHOR={Robert Nardone, }, JOURNAL={Art and Science}, VOLUME={5}, NUMBER={Issue 4}, YEAR={2021}, URL={http://openscience.fr/Hollywood-Atom-and-Cold-War-Between-Detente-and-Terror}, DOI={10.21494/ISTE.OP.2021.0739}, ISSN={2515-8767}, ABSTRACT={Our article proposes to examine three distinct Cold War periods in the light of apocalyptic Hollywood films produced and broadcast in the same three periods. What are the concrete intimate and direct links between a political, ideological and military conflict and its immediate cinematographic representation? How do the script, the choice of format (B&W or color), the choice of the decor, the costumes, the soundtrack, the actors and the staging, inform us about the precise state, at a given moment, of the belligerent relations between two states? How do these aesthetic elements inform us about the political positions of directors, when censorship is at its highest intensity?}}