{"product_id":"deconstructing-dr-strangelove-the-secret-history-of-nuclear-war-films-9781640121928","title":"Deconstructing Dr. Strangelove: The Secret History of Nuclear War Films","description":"King of the Cold War crisis film, \u003ci\u003eDr. Strangelove\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Sean M. Maloney uses \u003ci\u003eDr. Strangelove\u003c\/i\u003e and other genre classics like \u003ci\u003eFail Safe\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Bedford Incident\u003c\/i\u003e 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? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eDr. Strangelove\u003c\/i\u003e, one of the Cold War era's defining films. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSean M. Maloney\u003c\/b\u003e is a professor of history at Royal Military College and served as the Canadian Army's historian for the war in Afghanistan from 2003 to 2014. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eEnduring the Freedom: A Rogue Historian in Afghanistan\u003c\/i\u003e (Potomac Books, 2005), \u003ci\u003eLearning to Love the Bomb: Canada's Nuclear Weapons during the Cold War\u003c\/i\u003e (Potomac Books, 2007), and \u003ci\u003eOperation Kinetic: Stabilizing Kosovo\u003c\/i\u003e (Potomac Books, 2018). For more information about the author visit seanmmaloney.com.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Potomac Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50478141243666,"sku":"9781640121928","price":49.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_c9ad5d54-ab49-490a-b9a8-a391204234ce.jpg?v=1730285001","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/deconstructing-dr-strangelove-the-secret-history-of-nuclear-war-films-9781640121928","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}