The reader on red alert: Stanley Kubrick, Peter George, and the evolution of fear

dc.contributor.authorAllen, Graham
dc.date.accessioned2019-02-08T15:00:01Z
dc.date.available2019-02-08T15:00:01Z
dc.date.issued2017-12
dc.date.updated2019-02-08T13:06:20Z
dc.description.abstractOne of the purposes of studying adaptation is to allow, periodically, for a reassessment of the dominant assumptions concerning the relation between films and their non-filmic, often literary intertexts. The relation between Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb and Peter George’s novel Two Hours to Doom or, to use its U.S. title, Red Alert, is in need of such reassessment. In particular, the currently influential work of Peter Krämer on Dr. Strangelove presents us with an argument in which Kubrick’s film is a wholesale correction of George’s novel. This paper wishes to revise this influential reading, bringing our attention back to the literary and political complexity of George’s novel. Kubrick’s film, I want to argue, is not a correction but an historically situated adaptation. The paper presents this revision in the context of an emergent reassessment of Peter George’s wider career as a novelist.en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionPublished Versionen
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dc.identifier.citationAllen, G. (2017) 'The Reader on Red Alert: Stanley Kubrick, Peter George, and the Evolution of Fear', Cinergie – Il cinema e le altre arti, 12, pp. 117-125. doi: 10.6092/issn.2280-9481/7350en
dc.identifier.doi10.6092/issn.2280-9481/7350
dc.identifier.endpage125en
dc.identifier.issn2280-9481
dc.identifier.journaltitleCinergie – Il cinema e le altre artien
dc.identifier.startpage117en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/7471
dc.identifier.volume12en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherUniversità di BolognaIt
dc.relation.urihttps://cinergie.unibo.it/article/view/7350
dc.rights© 2017 Graham Allen. The text in this work is licensed under the Creative Commons BY License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en
dc.subjectStanley Kubricken
dc.subjectPeter Georgeen
dc.subjectRed Alerten
dc.subjectTwo Hours to Doomen
dc.subjectDr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomben
dc.titleThe reader on red alert: Stanley Kubrick, Peter George, and the evolution of fearen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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