Calling Dr Strangelove

Author : George Case
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014-08-23
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476618487

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Calling Dr. Strangelove by George Case Pdf

Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb is one of the most celebrated and significant films ever made. This book traces the movie's origins as a thriller novel through its evolution into a devastating black comedy, to its ultimate reception as an undisputed cinema classic. A wealth of fresh detail is provided on Dr. Strangelove's production, its initial reception and its lasting influence. The book also examines the film within the context of the real-life superpower standoff it satirized and evaluates its place alongside director Kubrick's entire catalog of famous works. Drawn from interviews, biographical research and extensive cultural analysis, this work is an indispensable resource for Kubrick fans, movie buffs and students of Cold War history.

Author : Peter Goodchild
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0674016696

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Edward Teller by Peter Goodchild Pdf

Goodchild unravels the complex web of harsh early experiences, character flaws, and personal and professional frustrations that lay behind the paradox of "the father of the H-bomb."

Author : Peter Bryant
Publisher : RosettaBooks
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2011-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780795311581

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Red Alert by Peter Bryant Pdf

The basis for Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece, Dr. Strangelove: A chilling Cold War thriller in which unchecked power unleashes total nuclear disaster. Air Force Brigadier General Quinten is a dying man suffering from the paranoid delusion that he can make the world a better place by ordering a full-scale nuclear attack on the Soviet Union. Receiving word of the attack already underway, the president of the United States and his advisors now must work frantically to stop it. The US bombers are to be shot down—but a lone bomber called the “Alabama Angel” escapes and flies on to complete its lunatic mission, ignoring the president’s orders. A ghastly and chilling vision of what might happen when profound and deadly power is put into the wrong hands, this classic thriller continues to serve as a warning in today’s tumultuous political climate.

Author : Jeanne P Tiehen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000474725

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The Theatre of Nuclear Science by Jeanne P Tiehen Pdf

The Theatre of Nuclear Science theoretically explores theatrical representations of nuclear science to reconsider a science that can have consequences beyond imagination. Focusing on a series of nuclear science plays that span the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and including performances of nuclear science in museums, film, and media, Jeanne Tiehen argues why theatre and its unique qualities can offer important perspectives on this imperative topic. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of theatre, politics, and literature.

Author : Wikipedia contributors
Publisher : e-artnow sro
Page : 1349 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Focus On: 100 Most Popular Films Based on British Novels by Wikipedia contributors Pdf

Author : Wikipedia contributors
Publisher : e-artnow sro
Page : 2436 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Focus On: 100 Most Popular United States National Film Registry Films by Wikipedia contributors Pdf

Author : Jody C. Baumgartner
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 718 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781440854866

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American Political Humor [2 volumes] by Jody C. Baumgartner Pdf

This two-volume set surveys the profound impact of political humor and satire on American culture and politics over the years, paying special attention to the explosion of political humor in today's wide-ranging and turbulent media environment. Historically, there has been a tendency to regard political satire and humor as a sideshow to the wider world of American politics—entertaining and sometimes insightful, but ultimately only of modest interest to students and others surveying the trajectory of American politics and culture. This set documents just how mistaken that assumption is. By examining political humor and satire throughout US history, these volumes not only illustrate how expressions of political satire and humor reflect changes in American attitudes about presidents, parties, and issues but also how satirists, comedians, cartoonists, and filmmakers have helped to shape popular attitudes about landmark historical events, major American institutions and movements, and the nation's political leaders and cultural giants. Finally, this work examines how today's brand of political humor may be more influential than ever before in shaping American attitudes about the nation in which we live.

Author : Robert P. Kolker,Nathan Abrams
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2024-01-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780571370375

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Kubrick by Robert P. Kolker,Nathan Abrams Pdf

The enigmatic and elusive filmmaker Stanley Kubrick has not been treated to a full-length biography in over twenty years. Stanley Kubrick: An Odyssey fills that gap. It is based on access to the latest research, especially into his archive at the University of the Arts, London, and other papers as well as new interviews with family members and those who worked with him. It offers comprehensive and in-depth coverage of Kubrick's personal, private, public, and working life. We discuss not only the making of his films, but also about those he wanted but failed to make like Burning Secret, Napoleon, Aryan Papers, and A.I. We discover what he was doing when he was not making films. This biography will puncture a few myths about this allegedly reclusive filmmaker, who created some of the most important works of art of the twentieth century

Author : Peter George
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 099311914X

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Dr Strangelove Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb by Peter George Pdf

Author : Paul Duncan
Publisher : Taschen
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 3822815926

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Stanley Kubrick by Paul Duncan Pdf

This a highly illustrated guide to the work of film director, Stanley Kubrick.

Author : Daniel Ellsberg
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781608196746

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The Doomsday Machine by Daniel Ellsberg Pdf

Shortlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction Finalist for The California Book Award in Nonfiction The San Francisco Chronicle's Best of the Year List Foreign Affairs Best Books of the Year In These Times “Best Books of the Year" Huffington Post's Ten Excellent December Books List LitHub's “Five Books Making News This Week” From the legendary whistle-blower who revealed the Pentagon Papers, an eyewitness exposé of the dangers of America's Top Secret, seventy-year-long nuclear policy that continues to this day. Here, for the first time, former high-level defense analyst Daniel Ellsberg reveals his shocking firsthand account of America's nuclear program in the 1960s. From the remotest air bases in the Pacific Command, where he discovered that the authority to initiate use of nuclear weapons was widely delegated, to the secret plans for general nuclear war under Eisenhower, which, if executed, would cause the near-extinction of humanity, Ellsberg shows that the legacy of this most dangerous arms buildup in the history of civilization--and its proposed renewal under the Trump administration--threatens our very survival. No other insider with high-level access has written so candidly of the nuclear strategy of the late Eisenhower and early Kennedy years, and nothing has fundamentally changed since that era. Framed as a memoir--a chronicle of madness in which Ellsberg acknowledges participating--this gripping exposé reads like a thriller and offers feasible steps we can take to dismantle the existing "doomsday machine" and avoid nuclear catastrophe, returning Ellsberg to his role as whistle-blower. The Doomsday Machine is thus a real-life Dr. Strangelove story and an ultimately hopeful--and powerfully important--book about not just our country, but the future of the world.

Author : Alain Kerzoncuf,Charles Barr
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780813160849

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Hitchcock Lost and Found by Alain Kerzoncuf,Charles Barr Pdf

Known as the celebrated director of critical and commercial successes such as Psycho (1960) and The Birds (1963), Alfred Hitchcock is famous for his distinctive visual style and signature motifs. While recent books and articles discussing his life and work focus on the production and philosophy of his iconic Hollywood-era films like Notorious (1946) and Vertigo (1958), Hitchcock Lost and Found moves beyond these seminal works to explore forgotten, incomplete, lost, and recovered productions from all stages of his career, including his early years in Britain. Authors Alain Kerzoncuf and Charles Barr highlight Hitchcock's neglected works, including various films and television productions that supplement the critical attention already conferred on his feature films. They also explore the director's career during World War II, when he continued making high-profile features while also committing himself to a number of short war-effort projects on both sides of the Atlantic. Focusing on a range of forgotten but fascinating projects spanning five decades, Hitchcock Lost and Found offers a new, fuller perspective on the filmmaker's career and achievements.

Author : Lewis Thomas
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1978-02-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781101667057

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The Lives of a Cell by Lewis Thomas Pdf

Elegant, suggestive, and clarifying, Lewis Thomas's profoundly humane vision explores the world around us and examines the complex interdependence of all things. Extending beyond the usual limitations of biological science and into a vast and wondrous world of hidden relationships, this provocative book explores in personal, poetic essays to topics such as computers, germs, language, music, death, insects, and medicine. Lewis Thomas writes, "Once you have become permanently startled, as I am, by the realization that we are a social species, you tend to keep an eye out for the pieces of evidence that this is, by and large, good for us."

Author : K.M. Walton,David Arnold,Anthony Breznican,G. Love,,Ellen Hopkins,James Howe,Beth Kephart,Elisa Ludwig,Jonathan Maberry,DONN T,E.C. Myers,Ellen Oh,Tiffany Schmidt,Suzanne Young
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-05
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781492638827

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Behind the Song by K.M. Walton,David Arnold,Anthony Breznican,G. Love,,Ellen Hopkins,James Howe,Beth Kephart,Elisa Ludwig,Jonathan Maberry,DONN T,E.C. Myers,Ellen Oh,Tiffany Schmidt,Suzanne Young Pdf

A song to match everyone's heartbeat. A soaring melody, a pulse-pounding beat, a touching lyric: Music takes a moment and makes it a memory. It's a universal language that can capture love, heartbreak, loss, soul searching, and wing spreading-all in the span of a few notes. In Behind the Song, fourteen acclaimed young adult authors and musicians share short stories and personal essays inspired by the songs, the albums, the musicians who move them. So cue up the playlist and crank the volume. This is an anthology you'll want to experience on repeat.

Author : David Bromwich
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781788737272

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American Breakdown by David Bromwich Pdf

American Breakdown is the brilliant political diary of one of America's leading essayists, David Bromwich, whose work has drawn wide appreciation for its incisive portraits and accurate prognosis. From his analysis of the Cheney-Bush co-presidency, in which foreign policy was reduced to permanent war, and Barack Obama's practice of reconciliation without truth, Bromwich chronicles the emergence of Donald Trump-the demagogue of a culture of corruption from which all traces of political interest and candor have dropped away. An unsparing account of the degradation of American democracy, the book leads off with a new introduction on the prospects for change during the new Democratic Congress.