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Dr. Strangelove or: How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Peter Kramer
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Description for Dr. Strangelove or: How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Paperback. Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove, or: How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) is the definitive film about the nuclear age. Peter Kramer analyses its key scenes and complex production history, highlighting major themes such as Strangelove's Nazi past and the film's close relationship with real-world nuclear strategy and politics. Series: BFI Film Classics. Num Pages: 120 pages, 50 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: APFA. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 193 x 137 x 9. Weight in Grams: 216.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Series
BFI Film Classics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
120
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781844577781
SKU
V9781844577781
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About Peter Kramer
Peter Kramer is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of East Anglia, UK. He is the author of The New Hollywood: From Bonnie and Clyde to Star Wars (2005), A Clockwork Orange (2011) and the BFI Film Classic on 2001: A Space Odyssey (2010).
Reviews for Dr. Strangelove or: How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Kramer was privileged to have been given access to Kubrick's private papers, and so is able to say for certain what was in the director's mind as well as chronicling the troubled history of its production with some authority. He also offers a comprehensive scene-by-scene analysis, including details of proposed alternatives which were never filmed or which didn't make the ... Read more