Strangelove Country

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>D. Harlan Wilson's </span><em style=color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>Strangelove Country</em><span style=color: rgba(83 90 98 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> is an original dynamic study of Stanley Kubrick's relationship with science fiction that explores how the genre shaped his cinematic identity and how that identity reshaped the genre. Focusing on Kubrick's futurist trilogy-</span><em style=color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>Dr. Strangelove</em><span style=color: rgba(83 90 98 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> </span><em style=color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>2001: A Space Odyssey</em><span style=color: rgba(83 90 98 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> and </span><em style=color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>A Clockwork Orange</em><span style=color: rgba(83 90 98 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>-as well as his collaboration with Steven Spielberg on </span><em style=color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>A.I. Artificial Intelligence</em><span style=color: rgba(83 90 98 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> Wilson takes a unique approach that is at once scholarly and defiant of academic stodge. Specifically he views the Kubrickian consciousness through the lens of schizoanalysis and filmosophy methods of inquiry that he uses to probe how Kubrick's oeuvre forms a singular autonomous interstitial filmind distinct from the director with its own manner of thinking seeing and being. Synthesizing film theory critical analysis and certain novelistic techniques Wilson reaffirms Kubrick's status as one of the twentieth century's greatest auteurs while casting new light on the filmmaker's extraordinary contribution to the history of cinema.</span></p>