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ALLS FAIR IN WAR AND SEX:
DR. STRANGELOVE, COMMUNICATION AND THE profound MALE URGES
1995 Chris Sheridan

Introduction
Synopsis
Nationalism and Prejudice
War and Sex
Gender
Women as Enemy
Male Characters; womanish Characteristics
Communication and Technology
The Telephone
Human Communication
The Divine Black Comedy
INTRODUCTION

1964. The Cuban missile Crisis was over, the Viet Nam War was just beginning and Stanley Kubrick released his latest film, Dr. Strangelove: Or how I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. While topic on the serious book, Red Alert, by Peter George, it presently transformed into a black prank that parodies the ridiculousness of globular nuclear destruction and the Cold War mentality. In the historical context of U.S./Soviet tensions, it seems strange to make a comedy about something so horrifying. But if, as Marshall McLuhan suggests, The mediocre is the message, Kubricks choice of this medium must say something about his message. Dr. Strangelove, is fundamentally an anti-war film, showing the absurdity of nuclear war and linking the two introductory male instincts together, sex drive and the desire to kill. The film continually portrays extreme examples of international politics, sexual politics, gender politics and the type of communication (or lack of) inherent in each.





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abridgment OF THE FILM

First, a brief synopsis of the film is necessary to raise the stage. General Ripper, a paranoid Air Force base commander, orders a squadron of B-52 bombers into the Soviet Union to drop hydrogen bombs on military targets. He is the only one who knows the recall economy that could be transmitted to abort the mission. At the pentagon, the U.S. President speaks with the articulation Chiefs in the war room to address the problem. General Turgidson sees this as an opportunity to completely destroy the Commie bastards and prevent their requisite retaliation. But the president is a pacifist, and he invites the Russian embassador into the war...If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: Orderessay



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