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Reconstructing Strangelove: Inside Stanley Kubrick´s Nightmare Comedy
Michael Broderick
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Description for Reconstructing Strangelove: Inside Stanley Kubrick´s Nightmare Comedy
Hardback. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: APFA; APFB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 167 x 243 x 2. Weight in Grams: 494.
During his career Stanley Kubrick became renowned for undertaking lengthy and exhaustive research prior to the production of all his films. In the lead-up to what would eventually become Dr. Strangelove (1964), Kubrick read voraciously and amassed a substantial library of works on the nuclear age. With rare access to unpublished materials, this volume assesses Dr. Strangelove's narrative accuracy, consulting recently declassified Cold War nuclear-policy documents alongside interviews with Kubrick's collaborators. It focuses on the myths surrounding the film, such as the origins and transformation of the straight script versions into what Kubrick termed a nightmare comedy. ... Read more
During his career Stanley Kubrick became renowned for undertaking lengthy and exhaustive research prior to the production of all his films. In the lead-up to what would eventually become Dr. Strangelove (1964), Kubrick read voraciously and amassed a substantial library of works on the nuclear age. With rare access to unpublished materials, this volume assesses Dr. Strangelove's narrative accuracy, consulting recently declassified Cold War nuclear-policy documents alongside interviews with Kubrick's collaborators. It focuses on the myths surrounding the film, such as the origins and transformation of the straight script versions into what Kubrick termed a nightmare comedy. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
494 g
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231177085
SKU
V9780231177085
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About Michael Broderick
Mick Broderick is associate professor of media analysis in the School of Arts at Murdoch University, Western Australia. He is the author of Nuclear Movies, editor of Hibakusha Cinema: Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and the Nuclear Image in Japanese Film, and coeditor of Trauma, Media, Art: New Perspectives and Interrogating Trauma: Collective Suffering in Global Art and Media.
Reviews for Reconstructing Strangelove: Inside Stanley Kubrick´s Nightmare Comedy
An insightful, rigorously researched, and well-written history of Dr. Strangelove that should be required reading for anyone interested in the origins, production, and legacy of this remarkable film and its creator.
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It is Broderick's deep involvement with the history of nuclear strategy and Cold War economics and politics that allows him to demonstrate time and again how ... Read more
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It is Broderick's deep involvement with the history of nuclear strategy and Cold War economics and politics that allows him to demonstrate time and again how ... Read more