Stanley Kubrick: Essays on His Films and Legacy

by Gary D. Rhodes (Editor)

Overview

Seventeen essays examine the career and films of director Stanley Kubrick from a variety of perspectives. Part I focuses on his early career, including his first newsreels, his photography for Look magazine, and his earliest films (Fear and Desire, Killer's Kiss). Part II examines his major or most popular films (Paths of Glory, The Shining, 2001: A Space Odyssey). Part III provides a thorough case study of Eyes Wide Shut, with four very different essays focusing on the film's use of sound, its representation of gender, its carnivalesque qualities, and its phenomenological nature. Finally, Part IV discusses Kubrick's ongoing legacy and his impact on contemporary filmmakers.

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780786432974
Publisher:	McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Publication date:	12/27/2007
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	264
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.60(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Gary D. Rhodes, a documentary filmmaker, is a professor at the Queen’s University, Belfast.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Introduction by Gary D. Rhodes     

Part I. Early Works
1. Stanley Kubrick and Look Magazine
Philippe Mather     
2. Kubrick’s Early Non-Fiction Work
Marina Burke     
3. The Art of War (Films): Fear and Desire and Paths of Glory
Charles Bane     
4. The Dream Landscape of Killer’s Kiss
Tony Williams     
5. One Watches Cells: Kubrick’s Films Noirs in Context
Hugh S. Manon     
Part I Notes     

Part II. Major Works
6. Patterns of Space, Sound, and Movement in Paths of Glory
Eric Eaton     
7. Spartacus: The Spectre of Politics and the Politics of Spectacle
Reynold Humphries     
8. Believing Is Seeing: Surveillance and 2001: A Space Odyssey
Gary D. Rhodes     
9. Value, Violence, and Music Recognized: A Clockwork Orange as Musicology
Kate McQuiston     
10. The Sadness of the Gaze: Barry Lyndon
Homay King     
11. Reconsidering Fidelity and Considering Genre in (and with) The Shining
Jarrell D. Wright     
Part II Notes     

Part III. Eyes Wide Shut (1999): A Case Study
12. The Mask that Conceals Nothing: Marital Fidelity and the Lo-Fi Soundscape in Eyes Wide Shut
Randolph Jordan     
13. Eyes Wide Shut: Kubrick and the Representation of Gender
Lindiwe Dovey     
14. Carnivalesque and Grotesque Bodies in Eyes Wide Shut
Miriam Jordan and Julian Jason Haladyn     
15. The Phenomenological Quest of Stanley Kubrick: Eyes Wide Shut
Phillip Sipiora     
Part III Notes     

Part IV. Kubrick’s Legacy
16. Mechanical Humanity, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Android: The Posthuman Subject in 2001: A Space Odyssey and Artificial Intelligence: A.I.
Scott Loren     
17. Whose Stanley Kubrick? The Myth, Legacy, and Ownership of the Kubrick Image
Robert J.E. Simpson     
Part IV Notes     

About the Contributors     
Index