DR. STRANGELOVE: OR HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB
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Jump to navigationJump to searchDR. STRANGELOVE: OR HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB (variously capitalized and punctuated). Stanley Kubrick, dir. UK: Hawk/Columbia, 1963 (completion), 1964 (US release). S. Kubrick, Terry Southern, Peter George, script—loosely based on Red Alert, by Peter George (writing as Peter Bryant).
Features mechanized humans (primarily Dr. Strangelove), humanized machines, men in a B-52, and humanity "trapped" in a doomsday machine. Important for Kubrick's 2001 and CLOCKWORK ORANGE, q.v. this Category. Discussed by V. Sobchack in The Limits of Infinity.[1] Note Strangelove as an "inheritor" of "the hand of Rotwang" in METROPOLIS. See under Drama Criticism T.A. Nelson's Kubrick: Inside a Film Artist's Maze.