Dr Strangelove S America

Author : Margot A. Henriksen
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 41,5 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 : Margot Ann Henriksen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:$C73614

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Dr. Strangelove's America by Margot Ann Henriksen Pdf

Author : George Case
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 47,9 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 Bryant
Publisher : RosettaBooks
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 40,6 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 : Peter Goodchild
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 49,7 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 : Paul Strathern
Publisher : Crux Publishing Ltd
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781909979611

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Dr Strangelove's Game by Paul Strathern Pdf

Author : Peter George,Stanley Kubrick,Terry Southern
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 46,8 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 : Sean M. Maloney
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 615 pages
File Size : 46,8 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 : David Seed
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-31
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781135953829

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American Science Fiction and the Cold War by David Seed Pdf

First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : David Mikics
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300255614

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Stanley Kubrick by David Mikics Pdf

An engrossing biography of one of the most influential filmmakers in cinematic history Kubrick grew up in the Bronx, a doctor’s son. From a young age he was consumed by photography, chess, and, above all else, movies. He was a self†‘taught filmmaker and self†‘proclaimed outsider, and his films exist in a unique world of their own outside the Hollywood mainstream. Kubrick’s Jewishness played a crucial role in his idea of himself as an outsider. Obsessed with rebellion against authority, war, and male violence, Kubrick was himself a calm, coolly masterful creator and a talkative, ever†‘curious polymath immersed in friends and family. Drawing on interviews and new archival material, Mikics for the first time explores the personal side of Kubrick’s films.

Author : Linda Dittmar,Gene Michaud
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0813515874

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From Hanoi to Hollywood by Linda Dittmar,Gene Michaud Pdf

Probing the large body of emotion-laden, controversial films, From Hanoi to Hollywood is concerned with the retelling of history and the retrospection that such a process involves. In this anthology, an awareness of film as a cultural artifact that molds beliefs and guides action is emphasized, an awareness that the contributors bring to a variety of films.

Author : James C. Bradford
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 1136 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2009-11-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781444315110

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A Companion to American Military History by James C. Bradford Pdf

With more than 60 essays, A Companion to American MilitaryHistory presents a comprehensive analysis of the historiographyof United States military history from the colonial era to thepresent. Covers the entire spectrum of US history from the Indian andimperial conflicts of the seventeenth century to the battles inAfghanistan and Iraq Features an unprecedented breadth of coverage from eminentmilitary historians and emerging scholars, including little studiedtopics such as the military and music, military ethics, care of thedead, and sports Surveys and evaluates the best scholarship on every importantera and topic Summarizes current debates and identifies areas whereconflicting interpretations are in need of further study

Author : Fred Kaplan
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781982107307

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The Bomb by Fred Kaplan Pdf

From the author of the classic The Wizards of Armageddon and Pulitzer Prize finalist comes the definitive history of American policy on nuclear war—and Presidents’ actions in nuclear crises—from Truman to Trump. Fred Kaplan, hailed by The New York Times as “a rare combination of defense intellectual and pugnacious reporter,” takes us into the White House Situation Room, the Joint Chiefs of Staff’s “Tank” in the Pentagon, and the vast chambers of Strategic Command to bring us the untold stories—based on exclusive interviews and previously classified documents—of how America’s presidents and generals have thought about, threatened, broached, and just barely avoided nuclear war from the dawn of the atomic age until today. Kaplan’s historical research and deep reporting will stand as the permanent record of politics. Discussing theories that have dominated nightmare scenarios from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Kaplan presents the unthinkable in terms of mass destruction and demonstrates how the nuclear war reality will not go away, regardless of the dire consequences.

Author : Aaron John Gulyas
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781476601687

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Extraterrestrials and the American Zeitgeist by Aaron John Gulyas Pdf

Since the 1950s, men and women around the world have claimed to have had contact with human-like visitors from space. This book explores how the "contactee" subculture has critiqued political, social and cultural trends in the United States, Europe and elsewhere. Not merely quaint relics of the 1950s Atomic Age, contactees have continued their messages of transformation into the 21st century. Regardless of whether these alleged contacts took the form of physical meetings or channeled paranormal psychic communications, or whether they actually happened at all, contactees have provided a consistently relevant source of commentary on this world and beyond.

Author : Christine Cornea,Rhys Owain Thomas
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781443846486

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Dramatising Disaster by Christine Cornea,Rhys Owain Thomas Pdf

The imagining of disaster has intensified across a wide range of media entertainment formats and genres in recent years and themes of disaster are regularly deployed in fictional films, television drama series, drama-documentaries, comic books and video games. This being the case, it is therefore vital that film and media scholars pay attention to the ways in which disaster is presented to us, to the figurative strategies employed, to the representational history of disaster in media, to the metaphorical resonances of disaster themes, and even to the ways in which entertainment media texts might be understood as part of a broader discourse of disaster within certain historical and cultural contexts. Dramatising Disaster presents new and innovative research from both early career and more established academics. Some of the chapters in this edited collection are based upon papers originally presented at a highly successful conference study day held by the School of Film, Television and Media at the University of East Anglia in 2011, while others are specifically solicited contributions. Distinct from previous, more particularised film and media studies in this area, this edited collection is focused not upon a specific disaster or specific disaster context, but upon the wider topic of disaster in popular culture.