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Hardback. Condición: New. 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.

Hardcover. Condición: new. Hardcover. Deconstructing Dr. Strangelove examines how well the Cold War crisis films stack up against historical reality, or at least as much of that reality as we can reconstruct with confidence. The 1964 comedy film Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb has achieved cult and now iconic status in popular culture. It is also the flagship of an entire genre of Cold War nuclear crisis films, which is employed in numerous academic disciplines to depict what many view as the prime absurdity of the Cold War: nuclear deterrence and its possible failure. The films of the Cold War nuclear crisis genre are regularly used by educators to illustrate nuclear warfare theories of the time. However, the further we get away from those dangerous years, the more art takes over from life/history/reality. There were (and remain) layers of absurdity in places like the RAND Corporation and in other "think tanks." However, those who also served should get their due. And Dr. Strangelove does not give it to them. Dr. Strangelove, Fail-Safe, The Bedford Incident, and others are about the internal and external failures of the deterrent system. That system did not fail in real life. Why is that? How is that? Can we use Dr. Strangelove and related films as vehicles to help us understand the answers to those questions? What was really going on in that secretive world? Answering those questions was impossible in the 1970s. Years after the end of the Cold War, we have much better insight. And now we can know. AUTHOR: Sean M. Maloney (PhD) is a professor of history at the Royal Military College of Canada and served as the Historical Advisor to the Chief of the Land Staff during the war in Afghanistan. Since 2001, Maloney has focused nearly exclusively on the war against the Al Qaeda movement and its allies. He has written several books based on his research and experience, including Enduring the Freedom: A Rogue Historian in Afghanistan (Potomac, 2005), Learning to Love the Bomb: Canada's Nuclear Weapons During the Cold War (Potomac, 2007), Confronting the Chaos: A Rogue Historian Returns to Afghanistan (Naval Institute Press, 2009), and more. Maloney has appeared on several programs, including Rex Murphy's Cross Canada Check Up on CBC and in the U.S. on the John Bachelor Show. 22 photographs, 13 illustrations, 5 maps, 1 table Deconstructing Dr. Strangelove examines how well the Cold War crisis films stack up against historical reality, or at least as much of that reality as we can reconstruct with confidence. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Hardback. Condición: New. 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.

Hardcover. Condición: new. Hardcover. Deconstructing Dr. Strangelove examines how well the Cold War crisis films stack up against historical reality, or at least as much of that reality as we can reconstruct with confidence. The 1964 comedy film Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb has achieved cult and now iconic status in popular culture. It is also the flagship of an entire genre of Cold War nuclear crisis films, which is employed in numerous academic disciplines to depict what many view as the prime absurdity of the Cold War: nuclear deterrence and its possible failure. The films of the Cold War nuclear crisis genre are regularly used by educators to illustrate nuclear warfare theories of the time. However, the further we get away from those dangerous years, the more art takes over from life/history/reality. There were (and remain) layers of absurdity in places like the RAND Corporation and in other "think tanks." However, those who also served should get their due. And Dr. Strangelove does not give it to them. Dr. Strangelove, Fail-Safe, The Bedford Incident, and others are about the internal and external failures of the deterrent system. That system did not fail in real life. Why is that? How is that? Can we use Dr. Strangelove and related films as vehicles to help us understand the answers to those questions? What was really going on in that secretive world? Answering those questions was impossible in the 1970s. Years after the end of the Cold War, we have much better insight. And now we can know. AUTHOR: Sean M. Maloney (PhD) is a professor of history at the Royal Military College of Canada and served as the Historical Advisor to the Chief of the Land Staff during the war in Afghanistan. Since 2001, Maloney has focused nearly exclusively on the war against the Al Qaeda movement and its allies. He has written several books based on his research and experience, including Enduring the Freedom: A Rogue Historian in Afghanistan (Potomac, 2005), Learning to Love the Bomb: Canada's Nuclear Weapons During the Cold War (Potomac, 2007), Confronting the Chaos: A Rogue Historian Returns to Afghanistan (Naval Institute Press, 2009), and more. Maloney has appeared on several programs, including Rex Murphy's Cross Canada Check Up on CBC and in the U.S. on the John Bachelor Show. 22 photographs, 13 illustrations, 5 maps, 1 table Deconstructing Dr. Strangelove examines how well the Cold War crisis films stack up against historical reality, or at least as much of that reality as we can reconstruct with confidence. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.

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