Deconstructing Dr Strangelove
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Deconstructing Dr Strangelove
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Author : Sean M. Maloney
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2020-07-01
Deconstructing Dr Strangelove written by Sean M. Maloney and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-07-01 with Performing Arts categories.
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.
Deconstructing Dr Strangelove
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Author : Sean M. Maloney
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2020-07-01
Deconstructing Dr Strangelove written by Sean M. Maloney and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-07-01 with Performing Arts categories.
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.
Emergency War Plan
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Author : Sean M. Maloney
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2021-02
Emergency War Plan written by Sean M. Maloney and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-02 with History categories.
2023 AFHF Air Power History Book Prize Winner Emergency War Plan examines the theory and practice of American nuclear deterrence and its evolution during the Cold War. Previous examinations of nuclear strategy during this time have, for the most part, categorized American efforts as “massive retaliation” and “mutually assured destruction,” blunt instruments to be casually dismissed in favor of more flexible approaches or summed up in inflammatory and judgmental terms like “MAD.” These descriptors evolved into slogans, and any nuanced discussion of the efficacy of the actual strategies withered due to a variety of political and social factors. Drawing on newly released weapons effects information along with new information about Soviet capabilities as well as risky and covert espionage missions, Emergency War Plan provides a completely new examination of American nuclear deterrence strategy during the first fifteen years of the Cold War, the first such study since the 1980s. Ultimately what emerges is a picture of a gargantuan and potentially devastating enterprise that was understood at the time by the public in only the vaguest terms but that was not as out of control as has been alleged and was more nuanced than previously understood.
Cold War Europe
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Author : Tobias Nanz, Hedwig Wagner
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2024-06-10
Cold War Europe written by Tobias Nanz, Hedwig Wagner and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-06-10 with categories.
Watching The World Die
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Author : Mike Bogue
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2023-10-26
Watching The World Die written by Mike Bogue and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-10-26 with Performing Arts categories.
During the 1980s, popular fear of World War III spurred moviemakers to produce dozens of nuclear threat films. Categories ranged from monster movies to post-apocalyptic adventures to realistic depictions of nuclear war and its immediate aftermath. Coverage of atomic angst films isn't new, but this is the first book to solely analyze 1980s nuclear threat movies as a group. Entries range from classics such as The Day After and WarGames to obscurities such as Desert Warrior and Massive Retaliation. Chronological coverage of the 121 films released between 1980 and 1990 includes production details, chapter notes, and critical commentaries.
The Disaster Film As Social Practice
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Author : Joseph Zornado
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2024-07-26
The Disaster Film As Social Practice written by Joseph Zornado and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-07-26 with Social Science categories.
Surveying disaster films from a Lacanian psychoanalytic perspective, this book explores the disaster film genre from its initial appearance in 1933 (The Grapes of Wrath, 1933) to its present-day form (Don’t Look Up!, 2021), laying bare the ideological unconscious at work within the genre. The Disaster Film as Social Practice examines environmental science, history, film and literature in its interdisciplinary analysis of the disaster film genre. It explores the interplay, and the dichotomy, of “restorative” and “reflective” disaster narratives. An analysis of cinema's role in symbolizing and managing collective anxiety around disaster and death narratives examines how disaster films, through their narrative structures and symbolic elements, contribute to the public's understanding and emotional processing of real-world threats, and how cinematic narratives shape and are shaped by public and private ideological discourses, reflecting deeper psychological and environmental truths. Finally, the book offers an overview of how the transformation of the disaster film genre over time tells a history through imagining the worst. Providing a nuanced understanding of the disaster film genre and its significance in contemporary culture and thought, this book will be of interest to scholars and students of film studies, cultural studies, media studies, and environmental studies.
The Theatre Of Nuclear Science
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Author : Jeanne Tiehen
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-11-28
The Theatre Of Nuclear Science written by Jeanne Tiehen and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-28 with Performing Arts categories.
The Theatre of Nuclear Science theoretically explores theatrical representations of nuclear science to reconsider a science that can have consequences beyond imagination. Focusing on a series of nuclear science plays that span the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and including performances of nuclear science in museums, film, and media, Jeanne Tiehen argues why theatre and its unique qualities can offer important perspectives on this imperative topic. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of theatre, politics, and literature.
The Future Of War
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Author : Lawrence Freedman
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2017-10-05
The Future Of War written by Lawrence Freedman and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-05 with History categories.
A new approach to ideas about war, from one of the UK's leading strategic thinkers In 1912 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote a short story about a war fought from underwater submersibles that included the sinking of passenger ships. It was dismissed by the British admirals of the day, not on the basis of technical feasibility, but because sinking civilian ships was not something that any civilised nation would do. The reality of war often contradicts expectations, less because of some fantastic technical or engineering dimension, but more because of some human, political, or moral threshold that we had never imagined would be crossed. As Lawrence Freedman shows, ideas about the causes of war and strategies for its conduct have rich and varied histories which shape predictions about the future. Freedman shows how looking at how the future of war was conceived about in the past (and why this was more often than not wrong) can put into perspective current thinking about future conflicts. The Future of War - which takes us from preparations for the world wars, through the nuclear age and the civil wars which became the focus for debate after the end of the Cold War, to present preoccupations with hybrid and cyber warfare - is filled with fascinating insights from one of the most brilliant military and strategic historians of his generation.
Viitorul Razboiului
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Author : Lawrence Freedman
language : ro
Publisher: Grup Editorial Litera
Release Date : 2019-11-06
Viitorul Razboiului written by Lawrence Freedman and has been published by Grup Editorial Litera this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-06 with History categories.
Un istoric militar, profesor și consultant politic, câștigător a numeroase premii, ne oferă istoria completă a războiului, sub toate formele și cu toate implicațiile sale, arătând ce a impulsionat și continuă să impulsioneze această formă umană unică de violență politică. Întrebările despre viitorul războiului sunt o prezență obișnuită a dezbaterii politice, a analizei strategice și a ficțiunii populare. Unde ar trebui să căutăm noi pericole? Ce planuri viclene poate avea un agresor? Care sunt cele mai bune forme de apărare? Cum ar putea fi păstrată pacea sau rezolvat conflictul? De la haosul francez de la Sedan, din 1870, la insurgențele contemporane din Irak și Afghanistan, Lawrence Freedman, un gânditor militar recunoscut la nivel mondial, ne dezvăluie cum cea mai mare parte a ideilor futurologilor militari de azi sunt greșite. Dar acestea își păstrează, totuși, influența. Freedman ne demonstrează că aceia care și-au imaginat viitorul războiului au avut adesea o imagine idealizată despre acesta ca fiind restrâns între anumite granițe, cu caracter scurt și decisiv, și au trecut constant cu vederea peste posibilitatea existenței unor războaie lungi – de aici persistența încăpățânată a ideii unei lovituri decisive, fie printr-o ofensivă terestră îndrăzneață, printr-o lovitură nucleară preventivă sau printr-un atac cibernetic. Tot el observă și lipsa de atenție față de războaiele civile, până ce Occidentul a început să intervină în acestea în timpul anilor 1990, și cum granițele dintre pace și război, dintre militar, civil și criminal devin din ce în ce mai neclare.
Science And Apocalypse In Bertrand Russell
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Author : , Javier Pérez-Jara
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Release Date : 2022-08-01
Science And Apocalypse In Bertrand Russell written by , Javier Pérez-Jara and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-01 with Philosophy categories.
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) was a logician, a philosopher, and one of the twentieth century’s most visible public intellectuals. Science and Apocalypse in Bertrand Russell: A Cultural Sociology brings those three aspects together to trace Russell’s changing views on the role of science and technology in society throughout his long intellectual career. Drawing from cultural sociology, history of science, and philosophy, Javier Pérez-Jara and Lino Camprubí provide a fresh multidimensional analysis of the general themes of science, technology, utopia, and apocalypse. The book critically examines Russell’s influential interpretations of the turn-of-the-century mathematical logic, World War I, the metaphysics and epistemology of mind and matter, World War II, nuclear holocaust, and the Vietnam War. In Russell’s compelling narratives, humanity was a powder keg and the match was represented by different and successive meta-adversaries, such as religion, communism, and American imperialism. And the only way to avoid a coming global Holocaust was to follow his own salvific recipes. In working around Russell’s role in the cultural perception of the final destiny of humanity, Science and Apocalypse in Bertrand Russell invites the reader to think about the place of the techno-scientific sphere in human progress and decadence in both our current epoch and the distant future.