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TITLE Dr. Strangelove (1964)

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DISABILITY Mental Amputee Limb

COUNTRY UK

LENGTH 93

GENRE Black comedy

DIRECTOR Stanley Kubrick

CAST Peter Sellers

Sterling Hayden

NOTES B/W.

Full title: Dr. Strangelove; or, How I Learned to stop worrying

and love the bomb

General Jack D. Ripper (Sterling Hayden) goes mad and Dr.

Strangelove (Sellers) is in a wheelchair and has a mechanical arm. His physical disabilities are meant to mirror his mental condition. There is plenty of discussion on this film which could make it suitable for studying the relation between

disability and character.


 


Notes

There is an essay on Dr. Strangelove "All's Fair in War and Sex" by Chris Sheridan

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