Dr. Strangelove or: How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (BFI Film Classics)

Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove, or, How I realized to prevent being concerned and Love the Bomb (1964) has lengthy been recognized as one of many key inventive expressions of the nuclear age. Made at a time whilst nuclear battle among the U.S. and the Soviet Union was once a true hazard, the movie is menacing, exhilarating, exciting, insightful and extremely humorous. Combining a scene-by-scene research of Dr. Strangelove with new examine within the Stanley Kubrick Archive, Peter Kramer's research foregrounds the connections the movie establishes among the chilly struggle and international warfare II, and among sixties the USA and Nazi Germany.

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