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Deconstructing Dr. Strangelove: The Secret History of Nuclear War Films
King of the Cold War crisis film, Dr. Strangelove became a cultural touchstone from the moment of...
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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: Sean M. Maloney
Publisher: Potomac Books
Published: 07/01/2020
Pages: 498
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.97lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.25d
ISBN: 9781640121928
About the Author
Sean M. Maloney is a professor of history at Royal Military College and served as the Canadian Army's historian for the war in Afghanistan from 2003 to 2014. He is the author of Enduring the Freedom: A Rogue Historian in Afghanistan (Potomac Books, 2005), Learning to Love the Bomb: Canada's Nuclear Weapons during the Cold War (Potomac Books, 2007), and Operation Kinetic: Stabilizing Kosovo (Potomac Books, 2018). For more information about the author visit seanmmaloney.com.
Author: Sean M. Maloney
Publisher: Potomac Books
Published: 07/01/2020
Pages: 498
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.97lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.25d
ISBN: 9781640121928
About the Author
Sean M. Maloney is a professor of history at Royal Military College and served as the Canadian Army's historian for the war in Afghanistan from 2003 to 2014. He is the author of Enduring the Freedom: A Rogue Historian in Afghanistan (Potomac Books, 2005), Learning to Love the Bomb: Canada's Nuclear Weapons during the Cold War (Potomac Books, 2007), and Operation Kinetic: Stabilizing Kosovo (Potomac Books, 2018). For more information about the author visit seanmmaloney.com.
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