A tour of universities (and prisons) recounts the atomic bomb through the filter of culture

A cultural dissemination tour has started which will bring a lesson open to the public entitled How the atomic bomb contaminated pop culture to various universities in Italy, high schools and even prisons. To keep it the journalist, writer and popularizer Camilla Sernagiotto, who has always been interested in the theme of the atomic bomb in various respects. The perspective from which we look at the unedited bomb this time: the cultural type filter, because it analyzes how the atomic bomb is told in films, television series, songs, paintings, sculptures, video games, comics and novels . In a historical period in which the atomic bomb is unfortunately a very current nightmare – following the invasion of Ukraine by Russia and the consequent tightening of relations between the world powers – bringing to universities, schools (and anywhere in which there are young people) the consequences of the deadliest weapon that exists by telling the implications through the works of musicians, novelists, directors and cartoonists a way to raise awareness among young people by involving them more explains Camilla Sernagiotto. The new generations are not particularly attracted by contexts in which we talk about history, atomic bombs, war and diplomacy. But if instead we talk about everything by looking at clips from Stanley Kubrick’s films, looking at Andy Warhol’s pop art serigraphs, watching the Lost series or listening to Iron Maiden, then things change. What this open lesson (whose next appointment will be on Friday 16 June at the University of Bari) offers is a more pop level of involvement, without however in the slightest sweetening something as serious, deadly, apocalyptic and serious as the atomic bomb underlines Camilla Sernagiotto, who also dedicated his recent essay entitled The Atomic Trap to the bomb. How the bomb contaminated pop culture (Ultra editions, 2023). Its publication is the first to bring together and analyze all the cultural works that speak of atomic bombs, from films to television series, from songs to video games, from comics to sculptures, paintings, even cartoons. To disseminate as much as possible, this theme has come out of the pages of the text to create an event capable of affecting the target of students, young people and anyone who wants to approach one of the most important topics in the history of humanity, given that we are talking about a weapon that could destroy us to the point of making us extinct