Dr. Strangelove or: How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

By:

Peter Kramer

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Paperback / softback

Series:

BFI Film Classics

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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 Biography:

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).

Release date Australia

October 31st, 2014

Author

Peter Kramer

Audiences

General (US: Trade)
Tertiary Education (US: College)

Country of Publication

United Kingdom

Illustrations

120 p.

Imprint

BFI Publishing

Pages

120

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Series

BFI Film Classics

Dimensions

135x191x9

ISBN-13

9781844577781

Product ID

22363323

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