Woody Allen . Willmut, Roger and Peter Rosengard. Aims To examine and define aspects of black comedy. To read and analyse Joseph Heller's Catch-22 and Stanley Kubrick's film Dr Strangelove . To assess the role of satire and comedy in dealing with major questions facing our society Seminar paper topics 1.
War is too terrible to take seriously.
It is more than thirty years since our two texts first appeared. Discuss with examples from either Catch-22 or Dr Strangelove . Catch-22 Dr Strangelove MASH Further reading Kiley, Frederick and Walter McDonald. A Catch-22 Casebook . T. Contemporary American Novelists .