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 Krämer'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.