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Respond to the following questions by researching their answers on the Internet.

1
Read "Just What the Doctor Ordered: Cold War Purging, Political Dissent, and the Right Hand of Dr. Strangelove" (http://www.film.queensu.ca/Boxen.html). Apply your knowledge of the cold war and the comedy genre to explain why Dr. Strangelove was or was not the right film for the era?
2
Notice that many of the all-time box office top films are science fiction (www.imdb.com). How many of the films seem to be, as the text suggests, covert "Us vs. Them" films? Who or what seems to be the most popular enemy?





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