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Broderick Mick |
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Reconstructing Strangelove : inside Stanley Kubrick's 'nightmare comedy' / / Mick Broderick |
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London : , : Wallflower Press, , [2017] |
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©2017 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (231 pages) |
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PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Dr. Strangelove Timeline -- Glossary -- INTRODUCTION. Stanley Kubrick's Atomic Antecedents -- CHAPTER ONE. The Road to Strangelove: From Red Alert to The Delicate Balance of Terror and Beyond -- CHAPTER TWO. Doctors Strangelove -- CHAPTER THREE. 'Gentlemen, you can't fight in here...': Brinksmanship Amongst the Authors and Producers of Dr. Strangelove and Fail-Safe -- CHAPTER FOUR. Authentically Strange: Presidential Predelegation, Fail-safes and Doomsday Machines -- CHAPTER FIVE. Reconstructing Strangelove: Outtakes from the Cutting Room Floor -- CONCLUSION. Sons of Strangelove -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- PRODUCTION CREDITS -- INDEX |
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During his career Stanley Kubrick became renowned for undertaking lengthy and exhaustive research prior to the production of all his films. In the lead-up to what would eventually become Dr. Strangelove (1964), Kubrick read voraciously and amassed a substantial library of works on the nuclear age. With rare access to unpublished materials, this volume assesses Dr. Strangelove's narrative accuracy, consulting recently declassified Cold War nuclear-policy documents alongside interviews with Kubrick's collaborators. It focuses on the myths surrounding the film, such as the origins and transformation of the "straight" script versions into what Kubrick termed a "nightmare comedy." It assesses Kubrick's account of collaborating with the writers Peter George and Terry Southern against their individual remembrances |
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