Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb Essay | Essay

This student essay consists of approximately 5 pages of analysis of Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove.

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb Essay | Essay

This student essay consists of approximately 5 pages of analysis of Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove.
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Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove

Summary: This essay is an examination of the satirical 1963 Stanley Kubrick film.
Review of Dr. Strangelove, Or: How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)

Stanley Kubrick is infamous for his witty films that satire governmental and societal actions though history. In this film, Dr. Strangelove, Or: How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964), Kubrick is once again directing a film that is a biting, sardonic comedy that pokes fun at the nuclear fears of the 1950s. The screenplay for the movie was written by Stanley Kubrick and Terry Southern, and was based on the novel Red Alert written by Peter George. In this film, which is classified as a black comedy/fantasy, technology runs amok and takes over society and mankind. The irony of the situation, however, became apparent when shortly after the movie was produced, the nuclear fears became an actual world scenario among events such as the Cuban Missile Crisis, The Bay...

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