Brosnan, John. The Primal Screen : A History of Science Fiction Film. Little Brown & Co, 1995. Updated edition of Future Tense. 1978 See Chapter 7: "Why everyone has stopped worrying about the bomb. . .again" '

Broderick, Mick. A Surviving Armageddon: Beyond the Imagination of Disaster. " Science Fiction Studies, 1993 Nov, 20:3 (61), 362-82.

Sontag, Susan. "The Imagination of Disaster. " Rpt. In Against Interpretation

Cumbow, Robert C. "Survivors: The Day After Doomsday. " In Omni's Screen Flights/ Screen Fantasies: The Future According to Science Fiction Cinema, ed. Danny Peary. Garden City, NJ: Doubleday & Co., 1984. 35-42.

Strick, Philip. Science Fiction Movies. London: Octopus Books, 1976. Chapters on:

• Armageddon and Later (end of the world scenerios)
• Out of Our Minds (reflections of political concerns, dystopias

Websites on Nuclear War/ Holcaust Films

• The American Experience: Truman's Foreign Policy
• The American Experience: Eisenhower's Foregn Policy
• Terminator vs. Terminator: Nuclear Holocaust as a Video Game by Paul Brians Although mostly in The Terminator also discusses post-holocuast films such as Mad Max

 

 

• Nuclear Holocausts: Atomic War in Fiction: A Supplement by Paul Brians Listing of fiction dealing with atomic war since 1986.
• Various Cosy Catastrophes and Dreadful Dooms My bibliography of science fiction novels; includes a list of criticism at the end.

Articles on Dr. Strangelove

List compiled by Molly Stenhouse, Dale Theiling, and Danielle Zahn

* Brustein, Robert. "Out of this World. " New York Review of Books 1964; rpt. in Perspectives on Stanley Kubrick, ed. Mario Falsetto. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1996: 136-40.

Harkness,-James-David. "Strangelove and Storytelling. " University-College-Quarterly, 1976, 22:1, 29-32. MLA ACCESSION NUMBER 76100338 .

Harper,-James-W. " Images of Armageddon: Nuclear War in Three Mass Audience Films. " 25-35 IN Goebel-Ulrich (ed.); Nelson-Otto (ed.). War and Peace: Perspectives in the Nuclear Age. Lubbock : Texas Tech UP, 1988.

*Hoberman, J. "When Dr. No Met Dr. Strangelove. " Sight-and-Sound, 1993 Dec, 3:12, 16-21.

Hughes,-Philip. "The Alienated and Demonic in the Films of Stanley Kubrick: Cinemanalysis ;with a Freudian Technophobic Argument. " Journal of-Evolutionary Psychology, 1982 Apr., 3:1-2, 12-27. MLA ACCESSION NUMBER 83028810 .

*Kagan, Norman. Excerpt from The Cinema of Stanley Kubrick. New York: Continuum, 1993, pp. 132-144.

Kolker, Robert Philip. A Dr. Strangelove and 2001: A Space Odyssey. " 1980; rpt. in Perspectives on Stanley Kubrick, ed. Mario Falsetto. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1996: 140-8..

Mahoney, Dennis F. "From Caligari to Strangelove: The German as (Mad) Scientist in Film and Literature. " 419-32 IN Henn Marianne (ed.); Lorey Christoph (ed.). Analogon Rationis. Edmonton, AB : 1994. MLA ACCESSION NUMBER 95080593 .

Maland,-Charles. "Dr. Strangelove (1964): Nightmare Comedy and the Ideology of Liberal Consensus. " 190-210 IN Rollins-Peter-C. (ed. & introd.); Browne-Ray-B. (foreword). Hollywood as Historian: American Film in a Cultural Context. Lexington : UP of Kentucky, 1983. MLA ACCESSION NUMBER 83028827 .

*Nelson, Thomas Alllen. Chapter 4, "The Descent of Man: Dr. Strangelove " , pp. 79-98 in Kubrick: Inside a Film Artist 's Maze. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1982.

Pohl, Frederik and Frederik Pohl IV. Science Fiction Studies in Film. NY: Ace Books, 1981. pp. 155-163 on Dr. Strangelove

Wagar, W. Warren. " The Mad Bad Scientist. " Science Fiction Studies, 22:1 (1995 Mar) 113-18.

Websites on Dr. Strangelove

• Michael Hacker's Homepage for Dr. Strangelove
• Just who WAS Dr. Strangelove, really? Discusses models for Strangelove including Henry Kissinger, Werner von Braun, Edward Teller, and Herman Kahn
• The alt.movies.kubrick FAQ -- contains info and links on both Dr. Strangleove and 2001
• Brief Insights of Dr. Strangelove?  Many quotes and comments on the film and the book.
• Roger Ebert on Strangelove -- Analysis of the actions of people trying to be serious and failing; several comments on George C. Scott
• Jeremy Boxen on Strangelove
• Terry Southern, "Notes from the war room"
•  IMDB quotes from the film
• IMDB Trivia

 

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