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American Cinema of the 1950s: Themes and Variations

Murray Pomerance

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America in the 1950s was a place of sensational commercial possibility coupled with dark nuclear...

Regionalism in Hard Times: Competitive and Postliberal Trends in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas

Mario Telo

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Brexit confirms that the EU is not a super-state in the making but rather an advanced regional...

Gorbachev: His Life and Times

William Taubman

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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Khrushchev: The Man and his Era comes the definitive...

Transnational Homosexuals in Communist Poland: Cross-Border Flows in Gay and Lesbian Magazines: 2017

Lukasz Szulc

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This book traces the fascinating history of the first Polish gay and lesbian magazines to explore...

Command and Control

Eric Schlosser

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Command and Control interweaves the minute-by-minute story of an accident at a missile silo in rural...

International Law and Transnational Organised Crime

Pierre Hauck and Sven Peterke

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Since the end of the Cold War, states have become increasingly engaged in the suppression of...

Ben Foster recommended Dr. Strangelove (1964) in Movies (curated)

"I would be embarrassed to begin to talk about Dr. Strangelove, because there has been so much written about it. It’s so bleak. And Peter Sellers is perfect. He’s just perfect. Terry Southern and Stanley Kubrick built this doomsday political satire, in the fists of the Cold War, and made the end of the world hysterical. We’re bumbling idiots, all of us. We’re all walking through dark rooms of our life, bumping into furniture, and it’s shocking. I think we all enjoy watching people who are in authority positions act like bumbling idiots; it satisfies part of our ego, I’m sure, on some level. Sellers’ commitment to those characters… the scene that stands out is when he’s trying to get change to make the phone call to stop the bomb, and that security guard won’t let him break government property to get the change. The frustration of that is as painful as it is hysterical."

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