Stanley Kubrick
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Stanley Kubrick

  1. 296 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
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eBook - ePub

Stanley Kubrick

About this book

Stanley Kubrick is generally acknowledged as one of the world’s great directors. Yet few critics or scholars have considered how he emerged from a unique and vibrant cultural milieu: the New York Jewish intelligentsia.
 
Stanley Kubrick reexamines the director’s work in context of his ethnic and cultural origins. Focusing on several of Kubrick’s key themes—including masculinity, ethical responsibility, and the nature of evil—it demonstrates how his films were in conversation with contemporary New York Jewish intellectuals who grappled with the same concerns.  At the same time, it explores Kubrick’s fraught relationship with his Jewish identity and his reluctance to be pegged as an ethnic director, manifest in his removal of Jewish references and characters from stories he adapted.
 
As he digs deep into rare Kubrick archives to reveal insights about the director’s life and times, film scholar Nathan Abrams also provides a nuanced account of Kubrick’s cinematic artistry. Each chapter offers a detailed analysis of one of Kubrick’s major films, including Lolita, Dr. Strangelove, 2001, A Clockwork Orange, Barry Lyndon, The Shining, Full Metal Jacket, and Eyes Wide Shut. Stanley Kubrick thus presents an illuminating look at one of the twentieth century’s most renowned and yet misunderstood directors.  

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Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Contents
  5. Introduction
  6. Chapter 1. Looking to Killing
  7. Chapter 2. The Macho Mensch
  8. Chapter 3. Kubrick’s Double
  9. Chapter 4. Banality and the Bomb
  10. Chapter 5. Kubrick and Kabbalah
  11. Chapter 6. A Mechanical Mensch
  12. Chapter 7. A Spatial Odyssey
  13. Chapter 8. Dream Interpretation
  14. Chapter 9. Men as Meat
  15. Chapter 10. Kubrick’s Coda
  16. Epilogue
  17. Acknowledgments
  18. Notes
  19. Select Bibliography
  20. Index
  21. About the Author