Title: Dr. Strangelove, or: How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Description: Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) has long been recognised as one of the key artistic expressions of the nuclear age. Made at a time when nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union was a real possibility, the film is menacing, exhilarating, thrilling, insightful and very funny. Combining a scene-by-scene analysis of Dr. Strangelove with new research in the Stanley Kubrick Archive, Peter Kramer's study foregrounds the connections the film establishes between the Cold War and World War II, and between sixties America and Nazi Germany. How did the film come to be named after a character who only appears in it very briefly? Why does he turn out to be a Nazi? And how are his ideas for post-apocalyptic survival in mineshafts connected to the sexual fantasies of the military men who destroy life on the surface of the Earth? This special edition features original cover artwork by Marian Bantjes.
Subjects: Dr. Strangelove (Motion picture), PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / Guides & Reviews, PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism, PERFORMING ARTS / Individual Director (see also BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Entertainment & Performing Arts), Dr. Strangelove, or, How I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb (Motion picture), Motion pictures, Performing arts--film & video--guides & reviews, Performing arts--film & video--history & criticism, Performing arts--individual director (see also biography & autobiography--entertainment & performing arts), Motion pictures--history, Pn1997.d725 k73 2014, 791.43/72, Per004020 per004030 per018000, PERFORMING ARTS, Film & Video, Guides & Reviews, History & Criticism, Individual Director (see also BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY, Entertainment & Performing Arts), History