Mario Falsetto, excerpts from
Stanley Kubrick: A Narrative & Stylistic Analysis

Dr. Strangelove:
- source novel: Red Alert
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real-time presentation, "temporal compression"
- - example: General Turgidson & his secretary
- long take
- - example: Mandrake & Ripper

mixture of "lunacy and farce" with "reality of presentation"

- confinement, limitation
- cutting between impenetrable spaces
- cutting away before actions are completed: "repeated suspensions or delays of narrative progress"

- credit sequence
- interior of B-52
- Pentagon War Room
effectiveness of farce and social critique depends on realism of presentation "on all levels"