Dr Strangelove Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb

Author : Peter Bryant
Publisher : RosettaBooks
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 50,6 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 : Alain Kerzoncuf,Charles Barr
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 47,6 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 : Scott C. Zeman,Michael A. Amundson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015059124076

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Atomic Culture by Scott C. Zeman,Michael A. Amundson Pdf

Eight scholars examine the range of cultural expressions of atomic energy from the 1940s to the early twenty-first century, including comic books, nuclear landscapes, mushroom-cloud postcards, the Los Alamos suburbs, uranium-themed board games, future atomic waste facilities, and atomic-themed films such as 'Dr. Strangelove' and 'The Atomic Kid'. Despite the growing interest in atomic culture and history, the body of relevant scholarship is relatively sparse. Atomic Culture opens new doors into the field by providing a substantive, engaging, and historically based consideration of the topic that will appeal to students and scholars of the Atomic Age as well as general readers.

Author : Peter Krämer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Dr. Strangelove (Motion picture)
ISBN : 1838713654

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Dr. Strangelove Or by Peter Krämer Pdf

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.

Author : George Case
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 51,6 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 : Margot A. Henriksen
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520340909

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Dr. Strangelove's America by Margot A. Henriksen Pdf

Did America really learn to "stop worrying and love the bomb," as the title of Stanley Kubrick's 1964 film, Dr. Strangelove, would have us believe? Does that darkly satirical comedy have anything in common with Martin Luther King Jr.'s impassioned "I Have a Dream" speech or with Elvis Presley's throbbing "I'm All Shook Up"? In Margot Henriksen's vivid depiction of the decades after World War II, all three are expressions of a cultural revolution directly related to the atomic bomb. Although many scientists and other Americans protested the pursuit of nuclear superiority after World War II ended, they were drowned out by Cold War rhetoric that encouraged a "culture of consensus." Nonetheless, Henriksen says, a "culture of dissent" arose, and she traces this rebellion through all forms of popular culture. At first, artists expressed their anger, anxiety, and despair in familiar terms that addressed nuclear reality only indirectly. But Henriksen focuses primarily on new modes of expression that emerged, discussing the disturbing themes of film noir (with extended attention to Alfred Hitchcock) and science fiction films, Beat poetry, rock 'n' roll, and Pop Art. Black humor became a primary weapon in the cultural revolution while literature, movies, and music gave free rein to every possible expression of the generation gap. Cultural upheavals from "flower power" to the civil rights movement accentuated the failure of old values. Filled with fascinating examples of cultural responses to the Atomic Age, Henriksen's book is a must-read for anyone interested in the United States at mid-twentieth century.

Author : Philip Simpson,Andrew Utterson,Karen J. Shepherdson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Art
ISBN : 041525972X

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Film Theory by Philip Simpson,Andrew Utterson,Karen J. Shepherdson Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:478432678

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Dr. Strangelove, Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb by Anonim Pdf

Author : Eric Skillman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Commercial art
ISBN : 160465936X

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Criterion Designs by Eric Skillman Pdf

This book features a selection of DVD and Blu-ray disc covers, supplemental art, and never-before-seen sketches and concept art commissioned for Criterion releases, plus a gallery of every Criterion DVD and Blu-ray disc cover since the collection's first laserdisc thirty years ago.

Author : Terry Southern
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2011-05-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781453217313

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The Magic Christian by Terry Southern Pdf

DIVDIVIn this uproarious and wicked cult-classic, Southern skewers American greed and pomposity /divDIVGuy Grand, an eccentric billionaire prankster, is rich enough to do whatever he likes. And what he likes is to carefully execute projects where he can cauterize by ridicule what the rest of the world ignores: complacency, greed, corruption, and idiocy. Determined to “make it hot for people,” Grand spends his billions staging a series of hilarious, sometimes bewildering stunts, lampooning along the way the American holy cows of money, status, power, beauty, media, and stardom. Concocting deliciously perverse mayhem, he throws a million one-hundred-dollar bills into an enormous vat of steaming offal, proving just what people will do for money, and he promotes a new silky shampoo that turns hair to wire and a deodorant that becomes a time-released stench-bomb. He inserts subliminally suggestive and perverse images into well-loved classic films, takes a howitzer on safari, and brings a panther to a kennel club dog show. His most elaborate adventure is an ultra-exclusive cruise aboard the S.S. Magic Christian, where elite passengers are treated to a series of madcap indignities./divDIV /divDIV The Magic Christian is a hilarious and savagely satiric view of American commercialism, rich in Southern’s deft handling of detail, dialogue, and delightful deviancy./divDIV /divDIVThis ebook features an illustrated biography of Terry Southern including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author’s estate./div/div

Author : Sean M. Maloney
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 615 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781640123496

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Deconstructing Dr. Strangelove by Sean M. Maloney Pdf

King of the Cold War crisis film, Dr. Strangelove became a cultural touchstone from the moment of its release in 1964. The duck-and-cover generation saw it as a satire on nuclear issues and Cold War thinking. Subsequent generations, removed from the film's historical moment, came to view it as a quasi-documentary about an unfathomable secret world. Sean M. Maloney uses Dr. Strangelove and other genre classics like Fail Safe and The Bedford Incident to investigate a curious pop cultural contradiction. Nuclear crisis films repeatedly portrayed the failures of the Cold War's deterrent system. Yet the system worked. What does this inconsistency tell us about the genre? What does it tell us about the deterrent system, for that matter? Blending film analysis with Cold War history, Maloney looks at how the celluloid crises stack up against reality--or at least as much of reality as we can reconstruct from these films with confidence. The result is a daring intellectual foray that casts new light on Dr. Strangelove, one of the Cold War era's defining films.

Author : Stanley Kubrick,Peter George,Terry Southern
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 5 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 19??
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:222058187

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Dr. Strangelove ; Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb by Stanley Kubrick,Peter George,Terry Southern Pdf

Author : Peter George,Stanley Kubrick,Terry Southern
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Dr. Strangelove, or, How I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb (Motion picture)
ISBN : 0285634992

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Doctor Strangelove, Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb by Peter George,Stanley Kubrick,Terry Southern Pdf

Doctor Strangelove is a timeless masterpiece of satire, both frightening and funny, that describes how two insane US officers start a nuclear war whilst presidents and others stand around helpless, unable to prevent them doing so.'

Author : Jeremy Rabkin,John Yoo
Publisher : Encounter Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781594038884

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Striking Power by Jeremy Rabkin,John Yoo Pdf

Threats to international peace and security include the proliferation of weapons of mass destructions, rogue nations, and international terrorism. The United States must respond to these challenges to its national security and to world stability by embracing new military technologies such as drones, autonomous robots, and cyber weapons. These weapons can provide more precise, less destructive means to coerce opponents to stop WMD proliferation, clamp down on terrorism, or end humanitarian disasters. Efforts to constrain new military technologies are not only doomed, but dangerous. Most weapons in themselves are not good or evil; their morality turns on the motives and purposes for the war itself. These new weapons can send a strong message without cause death or severe personal injury, and as a result can make war less, rather than more, destructive.

Author : Kubrick,George
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1310479585

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Dr. Strangelove Or: how I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb by Kubrick,George Pdf