Kubrick

An Odyssey

Robert P. Kolker, Nathan Abrams

• Publisher: Pegasus Books
• Year: 2024
• eBook ISBN:
  9781639366255
• Subtopic: Film History & Criticism

The definitive biography of the creator of 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Shining, and A Clockwork Orange, presenting the most in-depth portrait yet of the groundbreaking film-maker.

The enigmatic and elusive filmmaker Stanley Kubrick has not been treated to a full-length biography in over twenty years.

Stanley Kubrick: An Odyssey fills that gap. This definitive book is based on access to the latest research, especially Kubrick's archive at the University of the Arts, London, as well as other private papers plus new interviews with family members and those who worked with him. It offers comprehensive and in-depth coverage of Kubrick’s personal, private, public, and working life. Stanley Kubrick: An Odyssey investigates not only the making of Kubrick's films, but also about those he wanted (but failed) to make like Burning Secret, Napoleon, Aryan Papers, and A.I.

Revealingly, this immersive biography will puncture the controversial myths about the reclusive filmmaker who created some of the most important works of art of the twentieth century

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Chapter 1: ‘A Relatively Normal Life’
• Chapter 2: ‘From Oddball to Intriguing Misfit’ 1928–1945
• Chapter 3: ‘Stan Kubrick, Photo, 1414 Shakespeare Ave., NYC’ 1945–1949
• Chapter 4: ‘As If We Were Doing ‘War and Peace’’ 1949–1951
• Chapter 5: ‘A Bumbling Amateur Film Exercise’ 1951–1953
• Chapter 6: ‘Baby, Nobody’s Going to Get Anything Out of this Movie But Me’ 1953–1955
• Chapter 7: ‘The Gangster and the Artist’ 1955–1956
• Chapter 8: ‘He Provides a Very Necessary Threat’ 1956
• Chapter 9: ‘Stanley, I Don’t Think This Picture Will Ever Make a Nickel, But We ‘Have’ to Make It’ 1957–1958
• Chapter 10: ‘Stanley Hubris’ 1958–1959
• Chapter 11: ‘Now I Can Make a Story That I Have a Crush On’ 1959–1961
• Chapter 12: ‘Intrigued by the Threat of Nuclear War’ 1961–1962
• Chapter 13: ‘I’m a Bit More of a Science-Fiction Addict Than You Might Have Suspected’ 1963–1964
• Chapter 14: ‘Science Fiction? You’ve Got to Be Kidding’ 1964–1965
• Chapter 15: ‘Mr Cool’ 1965–1968
• Chapter 16: ‘Americans Don’t Like Films Where People Write with Feathers’ 1968–1970
• Chapter 17: ‘A Terrible Man. Just Shocking’ 1970–1972
• Chapter 18: ‘I’m Not a Franz Kafka, Sitting Alone and Suffering’ 1972–1974
• Chapter 19: ‘He Is Never Far Wrong About Anything’ 1974–1975
• Chapter 20: ‘I’ve Always Liked Fairy Tales and Myths’ 1976–1977
• Chapter 21: ‘He Was An Artist, with the Inner Life of One, Dreaming About His Work’ 1977–1978
• Chapter 22: ‘How Can We Do It Better Than It’s Ever Been Done Before?’ 1978–1980
• Chapter 23: ‘Anxiously Awaiting Getting an Idea’ 1980–1982
• Chapter 24: ‘A Terse Spitball of a Book, Fine and Real and Terrifying’ 1982–1984
• Chapter 25: ‘As Daunting and Inscrutable as a Monolith’ 1984–1987
• Chapter 26: ‘I Might Just Tinker with It a Little…’ 1988–1991
• Chapter 27: ‘Routines of Evasive Deception’ 1991–1993
• Chapter 28: ‘His Creative Process and Mine Were Not Sufficiently Aligned’ 1994–1995
• Chapter 29: ‘Didn’t He Wind Up… in Some Place with a Very Bad Climate?’ 1995–1996
• Chapter 30: ‘It’s My Best Film Ever’ 1996–1999
• Chapter 31: ‘The Guy Who Was My Pal’ March–December 1999
• Acknowledgments
• About the Authors
• Bibliographic Essay
• Index
• Copyright