Albion's Atomic-Weird by Phil Smith - PREORDER

PLEASE NOTE: this is a preorder and copies will be sent in September.

In 'Albion's Atomic-Weird: Strange Media of the Nuclear Generations' Phil Smith examines the films and TV shows that appeared in the shadow of the atom bomb. Uncontainable energies, mutually assured destruction, and strange forms of desire assemble themselves in the radioactive aftershock and gesture towards a new way of being in an atomised world.

"The hidden energies, the horror, the science fiction and the overall folk weirdness are compelling. It feels as if the weird becomes an occult signal of Dada hopefulness within an injured world.... a siren….We blunder onwards into the wherever but, with Phil Smith at the helm, we are never lost for words."

Andrew Kötting

"'Albion’s Atomic-Weird' emerges from a bold premise – that late-twentieth and early-twenty-first century culture radiated from the splitting (and then fusing) of the atom, and the ensuing physical and social fragmentation – that Phil Smith articulates brilliantly. Combining incredibly impressive cultural and philosophical fluency with incisive analysis, this beautifully written book provides a much-needed guide to the on-screen imagination of (post-)nuclear Britain."

Brontë Schiltz

Paperback, 280 pp.

Films and TV shows discussed:

Night Of The Eagle (1962)
The Earth Dies Screaming (1964)
Invasion (1965)
Nineteen Eighty-Four (1954)
Doomwatch (1972)
Rawhead Rex (1986)
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)
Seven Days To Noon (1950)
High Treason (1951)
The War Game (1966)
Threads (1984)
The Mind Benders (1963)
The Sorcerers (1967)
The Year Of the Sex Olympics (1968)
The Treasure of Abbot Thomas (1974)
The Quatermass Conclusion (1979)
Dalek (2005)
The Stone Tape (1972)
The Hexham Heads (Nationwide, 1976)
Britannia Hospital (1982)
Ghostwatch (1992)
The Borderlands (2013)
Vivarium (2019)
The Listeners (2024)
Robin Redbreast (1970)
The Blood On Satan’s Claw (1971)
The Living Grave (1980)
The Devil Rides Out (1968)
Jubilee (1978)
Lifeforce (1985)
Kill List (2011)
A Dark Song (2016)
X The Unknown (1956)
The Day of the Triffids (1963)
Daleks – Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D. (1966)
Penda’s Fen (1974)
The Nine Muses (2010)
The Way (2022)
Gwledd (The Feast) (2021)
28 Years Later (2025)