Week 9 (May 30)

You either watched the film Dr. Strangelove in class with us, or streamed it on your own. Your two sources for this week are the movie, and Orwell’s 1984 (which you probably should have finished reading by now).

Refer to week 8 readings for some lecture material on 1984. 

For your abstract: What did you glean from watching Dr. Strangelove, ideally related to 1984 and to the persistence of the ‘superpowers’? Keep in mind the film is art, but art made during a time when the Cold War posed an existential threat to humanity. 

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