Sean M. Maloney

Deconstructing Dr. Strangelove (eBook, PDF)

The Secret History of Nuclear War Films

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Potomac Books
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781640123519
• Artikelnr.: 72304962

Autorenporträt

Sean M. Maloney is a professor of history at the Royal Military College of Canada and served as the Canadian Army’s historian for the war in Afghanistan from 2003 to 2014. He is the author of several books, including Learning to Love the Bomb: Canada’s Nuclear Weapons during the Cold War (Potomac Books, 2007) and Deconstructing Dr. Strangelove: The Secret History of Nuclear War Films (Potomac Books, 2020).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Book! Movie! The Literary Genesis of the Cold War Nuclear Crisis Film
2. Purity of Essence I: The Nuclear Leader and the Psychological Dimension
in Fact and Fiction
3. Purity of Essence II: The Men and the Mission
4. Purity of Essence III: The LeMay-Power Deterrent Campaign and Dr.
Strangelove
5. Peace Is Our Profession: Gen. Thomas Power and Nuclear Crisis Behavior
6. Theater of War: Fighting in the War Room
7. Plan R: Positive Control, Airborne Alert, and the Nuclear Crisis Films
8. Strategic Underground Command: The ICBM Force in Film and History
9. Dr. Strangelove Goes to Sea: Cold War Nuclear Naval Operations on Film
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index