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Based on groundbreaking archival research, this study offers many new insights into the making, marketing, and reception of Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece. It is a revelation not only for Kubrick fans and scholars but also for anyone interested in this extraordinary movie. -- Peter Kramer, University of East Anglia Essential reading...a fresh masterful take on Kubrick's magnum opus and the atomic age that produced it. This book is a nimble, eye-opening reappraisal full of new insight, deep research and great intelligence. -- Junot Diaz, Fiction Editor at the Boston Review and Professor of Writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Dr Strangelove Timeline Glossary Introduction: Stanley Kubrick's Atomic Antecedents 1. The Road to Strangelove: From Red Alert to The Delicate Balance of Terror and Beyond 2. Doctors Strangelove-a Character Evolution 3. 'Gentlemen, you can't fight in here': Brinksmanship Amongst the Authors and Producers of Dr Strangelove and Fail-Safe 4. Authentically Strange: Presidential Predelegation, Fail-safes and Doomsday Machines 5. Reconstructing Strangelove: Outtakes from the Cutting Room Floor Conclusion: Sons of Strangelove Bibliography Production Credits Index

About the Author

Mick Broderick is associate professor of media analysis in the School of Arts at Murdoch University, Western Australia. He is the author of Nuclear Movies, editor of Hibakusha Cinema: Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and the Nuclear Image in Japanese Film, and coeditor of Trauma, Media, Art: New Perspectives and Interrogating Trauma: Collective Suffering in Global Art and Media.