Deconstructing Dr. Strangelove: The Secret History of Nuclear War Films eBook

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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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Deconstructing Dr. Strangelove: The Secret History of Nuclear War Films is written by Sean M. Maloney and published by Potomac Books. The Digital and eTextbook ISBNs for Deconstructing Dr. Strangelove are 9781640123496 and the print ISBNs are 9781640123496, 1640123490. Additional ISBNs for this eTextbook include 9781640123519.