205 Week 2 Discussion

To represent the historical and political themes important to international relations, I

have chosen Dr. Strangelove for my PA1 assignment. Two peer-reviewed articles that can be

useful for this paper summarize as follows:

Article 1

Dias, A. (2018). Dr. Strangelove or How I Should Stop Worrying and Love Fascism.

International Journal of English Linguistics, 8(3), 15-24.

Article’s Purpose: This article presents a discourse examination of Dr. Strangelove’s movie.

The analysis looks at both the film and the novel’s textual and non-linguistic elements (Dias,

2018). It examines how authoritarian ideologies could survive inside the American society

depicted in Dr. Strangelove through a discourse review of the film.

Use in PA1: It is useful in the PA1 as it presented many interesting and useful information

about the selected movie. It can use in the different parts of paper for providing information

about the cold war.

Abstract: This paper examines Stanley Kubrick’s film Dr. Strangelove through the lens of

Foucauldian discourse research. The review looks at both the film and the novel’s textual and

non-linguistic elements. It is divided into three parts (Dias, 2018). The first is a look at

Manichaeism during the Cold War and how it turned the Soviets into America’s mortal

enemies. The second is just how the nuclear crisis and Cold War fear could destabilize the

United States’ political structure. The third study explains how the discipline of bodies can be

used to cultivate Fascist ties. A sociopsychological reform is proposed as a way to prevent

such a situation in order to achieve more peaceful relations.

Article 2
Higgins, S. (2018). Purity of essence in the Cold War: Dr. Strangelove, paranoia, and bodily

boundaries. Textual Practice, 799-820.

Article’s Purpose: This article aims to provide a new perspective on ‘Cold War paranoia’

through a psychoanalytic interpretation of these articles, in which paranoia is transformed

into a peculiarly bodily psychiatric disturbance.

Use in PA1: It can use to discuss the transparency of principle in the Cold War. The satirical

depiction of the water fluoridation crisis in that film, in which water fluoridation is portrayed

as a Communist conspiracy to turn America’s citizen-soldiers into gentle, weak-willed dupes,

simple adherents to the Red Menace (Higgins, 2018). It could have been pulled from any

number of prominent periodicals of the time.

Abstract: In Stanley Kubrick’s myths, the (male) body – physical and national – is invaded

and divided by the material most essential to its existence, water. Via a psychoanalytic

interpretation of these articles, this article creates a new definition of “Cold War hysteria,”

paranoia is transformed into a peculiarly bodily psychiatric disorder (Higgins, 2018). The

skeptical target believes that dangerous alien powers and artifacts are actively threatening to

infiltrate the national and physical body. In its analysis of the deathly body politics at risk in

the Cold War, Dr. Strangelove’s use of humor distinguishes it from previous films.

References

Dias, A. (2018). Dr. Strangelove or How I Should Stop Worrying and Love Fascism.

International Journal of English Linguistics, 8(3), 15-24.

Higgins, S. (2018). Purity of essence in the Cold War: Dr. Strangelove, paranoia, and bodily

boundaries. Textual Practice , 799-820.