{"id":"https://openalex.org/W2057310575","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1093/envhis/12.2.237","title":"Looking Straight atThem!Understanding the Big Bug Movies of the 1950s","display_name":"Looking Straight atThem!Understanding the Big Bug Movies of the 1950s","publication_year":2007,"publication_date":"2007-04-01","ids":{"openalex":"https://openalex.org/W2057310575","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1093/envhis/12.2.237","mag":"2057310575"},"language":"en","primary_location":{"id":"doi:10.1093/envhis/12.2.237","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1093/envhis/12.2.237","is_oa":false,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.1093/envhis/12.2.237","pdf_url":null,"source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S76796937","display_name":"Environmental History","issn_l":"1084-5453","issn":["1084-5453","1930-8892"],"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":true,"listed_in":["anvur-class-a","anvur-scientific","cwts-core","dongbi-c","erih-plus","jufo-3","norway-2","poland-140","russia-white-list-1","vabb-shw"],"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/P4310311648","host_organization_name":"Oxford University Press","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/P4310311648","https://openalex.org/P4310311647"],"host_organization_lineage_names":["Oxford University Press","University of Oxford"],"type":"journal"},"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"Environmental History","raw_type":"journal-article"},"volume":null,"type":"article","indexed_in":["crossref"],"open_access":{"is_oa":false,"oa_status":"closed","oa_url":null,"any_repository_has_fulltext":false},"authorships":[{"author_position":"first","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5001481620","display_name":"William Tsutsui","orcid":null,"observed_orcids":[]},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I146416000","display_name":"University of Kansas","ror":"https://ror.org/001tmjg57","country_code":"US","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I146416000"]}],"countries":["US"],"is_corresponding":true,"raw_author_name":"William M. Tsutsui","raw_affiliation_strings":["University of Kansas"],"raw_orcid":null,"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"University of Kansas","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I146416000"]}]}],"institutions":[],"countries_distinct_count":1,"institutions_distinct_count":1,"corresponding_author_ids":["https://openalex.org/A5001481620"],"corresponding_institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I146416000"],"apc_list":null,"apc_paid":null,"fwci":16.5259,"has_fulltext":false,"cited_by_count":17,"citation_normalized_percentile":{"value":0.98525934,"is_in_top_1_percent":false,"is_in_top_10_percent":true},"cited_by_percentile_year":{"min":88,"max":97},"biblio":{"volume":"12","issue":"2","first_page":"237","last_page":"253"},"is_retracted":false,"is_paratext":false,"is_xpac":false,"primary_topic":{"id":"https://openalex.org/T12803","display_name":"Cinema History and Criticism","score":0.6439999938011169,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1213","display_name":"Visual Arts and Performing Arts"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/12","display_name":"Arts and Humanities"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}},"topics":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/T12803","display_name":"Cinema History and Criticism","score":0.6439999938011169,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1213","display_name":"Visual Arts and Performing Arts"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/12","display_name":"Arts and Humanities"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T12507","display_name":"Utopian, Dystopian, and Speculative Fiction","score":0.13109999895095825,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1211","display_name":"Philosophy"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/12","display_name":"Arts and Humanities"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T12457","display_name":"Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature","score":0.04859999939799309,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1208","display_name":"Literature and Literary Theory"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/12","display_name":"Arts and Humanities"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}}],"keywords":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/science-fiction-film","display_name":"science fiction film","score":0.6919999718666077},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/insecticides","display_name":"insecticides","score":0.8140000104904175},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/ddt","display_name":"DDT","score":0.9919999837875366},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/lymantria-dispar","display_name":"gypsy moth","score":0.9610000252723694},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/imported-fire-ant","display_name":"imported fire ant","score":0.972000002861023},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/cold-war-anxiety","display_name":"Cold War anxiety","score":0.8790000081062317},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/nuclear-fear","display_name":"nuclear anxiety","score":0.9300000071525574}],"concepts":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2780458788","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5882564","display_name":"Hollywood","level":2,"score":0.8043218851089478},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2779271020","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q580995","display_name":"Apotheosis","level":2,"score":0.5619774460792542},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C162127614","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5928045","display_name":"Ambivalence","level":2,"score":0.4829513430595398},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2779343474","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3109175","display_name":"Context (archaeology)","level":2,"score":0.4409013092517853},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C107038049","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q35986","display_name":"Aesthetics","level":1,"score":0.39271318912506104},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C95457728","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q309","display_name":"History","level":0,"score":0.378673791885376},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C144024400","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21201","display_name":"Sociology","level":0,"score":0.36512327194213867},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C124952713","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8242","display_name":"Literature","level":1,"score":0.31530988216400146},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C142362112","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q735","display_name":"Art","level":0,"score":0.23651123046875},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C52119013","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q50637","display_name":"Art history","level":1,"score":0.2326160967350006},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C77805123","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q161272","display_name":"Social psychology","level":1,"score":0.0},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C15744967","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9418","display_name":"Psychology","level":0,"score":0.0},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C166957645","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23498","display_name":"Archaeology","level":1,"score":0.0}],"mesh":[],"locations_count":1,"locations":[{"id":"doi:10.1093/envhis/12.2.237","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1093/envhis/12.2.237","is_oa":false,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.1093/envhis/12.2.237","pdf_url":null,"source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S76796937","display_name":"Environmental History","issn_l":"1084-5453","issn":["1084-5453","1930-8892"],"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":true,"listed_in":["anvur-class-a","anvur-scientific","cwts-core","dongbi-c","erih-plus","jufo-3","norway-2","poland-140","russia-white-list-1","vabb-shw"],"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/P4310311648","host_organization_name":"Oxford University Press","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/P4310311648","https://openalex.org/P4310311647"],"host_organization_lineage_names":["Oxford University Press","University of Oxford"],"type":"journal"},"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"Environmental History","raw_type":"journal-article"}],"best_oa_location":null,"sustainable_development_goals":[],"study_designs":[],"awards":[],"funders":[],"has_content":{"grobid_xml":false,"pdf":false},"content_urls":null,"referenced_works_count":5,"referenced_works":["https://openalex.org/W588504469","https://openalex.org/W1493527956","https://openalex.org/W1834983220","https://openalex.org/W4233214235","https://openalex.org/W4390020275"],"related_works":["https://openalex.org/W7002173846","https://openalex.org/W4393134888","https://openalex.org/W2779991612","https://openalex.org/W2758296554","https://openalex.org/W2150960316","https://openalex.org/W4253896843","https://openalex.org/W655984804","https://openalex.org/W107470658","https://openalex.org/W4231355697","https://openalex.org/W2804188913"],"abstract_inverted_index":{"Giant":[0],"insects,":[1,75],"from":[2],"the":[3,8,13,78,86,98,120],"ants":[4],"of":[5,12,36,88,91,102,151],"Them!":[6],"to":[7],"locusts":[9],"in":[10,17,85,105],"Beginning":[11],"End,":[14],"featured":[15],"prominently":[16],"Hollywood's":[18,62],"postwar":[19],"science":[20,50],"fiction":[21],"boom.":[22],"Critics":[23],"and":[24,51,54,76,94,100,107,125,129,147],"historians":[25],"have":[26],"invariably":[27],"interpreted":[28],"these":[29],"cinematic":[30],"big":[31,79],"bugs":[32],"as":[33,71,74],"symbolic":[34],"manifestations":[35],"Cold":[37],"War":[38],"era":[39],"anxieties,":[40],"including":[41],"nuclear":[42,145],"fear,":[43],"concern":[44],"over":[45],"communist":[46],"infiltration,":[47],"ambivalence":[48],"about":[49,97,116,131],"technocratic":[52],"authority,":[53],"repressed":[55],"Freudian":[56],"impulses.":[57],"This":[58],"essay":[59],"argues":[60],"that":[61,77],"mammoth":[63],"arthropods":[64],"should":[65,82],"be":[66,83],"taken":[67],"more":[68],"literally,":[69],"less":[70],"metaphors":[72],"than":[73],"bug":[80],"genre":[81],"analyzed":[84],"context":[87],"actual":[89],"fears":[90],"insect":[92],"invasion":[93],"growing":[95],"misgivings":[96],"safety":[99],"effectiveness":[101],"modern":[103],"insecticides":[104],"1950s":[106],"early":[108],"1960s":[109],"America.":[110],"In":[111],"movies":[112],"like":[113,133],"Them!,":[114],"worries":[115],"real-life":[117],"insects":[118],"on":[119],"loose,":[121],"notably":[122],"gypsy":[123],"moths":[124],"imported":[126],"fire":[127],"ants,":[128],"uneasiness":[130],"pesticides":[132],"DDT":[134],"were":[135],"refracted":[136],"through":[137],"a":[138,148],"cultural":[139],"lens":[140],"colored":[141],"by":[142],"superpower":[143],"rivalries,":[144],"proliferation,":[146],"wide":[149],"range":[150],"social":[152],"tensions.":[153]},"counts_by_year":[{"year":2026,"cited_by_count":2},{"year":2025,"cited_by_count":2},{"year":2024,"cited_by_count":3},{"year":2021,"cited_by_count":1},{"year":2019,"cited_by_count":1},{"year":2018,"cited_by_count":1},{"year":2017,"cited_by_count":2},{"year":2016,"cited_by_count":3}],"updated_date":"2026-10-30T12:39:25.321706","created_date":"2016-06-24T00:00:00"}