Garcia Mainar's critical study of the films of the late Stanley Kubrick includes analysis of all but his last work, Eyes Wide Shut, and offers both a formal analysis of the films based on style and narrative pattern, and a theoretical, postmodernist approach to ideas presented in the films. Garcia Mainar is particularly concerned with analyzing the relevance of spectacle in Kubrick's films, seeing it as a disruptive mechanism that can call into question the value and necessity of communication. He identifies different kinds of spectacle in the films, and proceeds to a detailed examination of these different forms in 2001 A Space Odyssey, Barry Lyndon, and Full Metal Jacket.
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Luis M. Garcia Mainar teaches English at the University of Zaragoza, Spain.
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Narrative and stylistic patterns in reviewing Kubrick...,
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This review is from: Narrative and Stylistic Patterns in the Films of Stanley Kubrick (European Studies in American Literature and Culture) (Hardcover)
It's about time someone would write up a profound review onsuch a profound director. Such a book should be almost the cinematiccontra to the excellent review, "Rhetoric of fiction", by Wayne C. Booth, where he examines the question: "Where does the real story lie?", to which th answer is, ofcourse, in the reader/viewer's mind, and not on the screen, or in the pages of the book. But this book is not such... Such examples are lacking in the book, which is very interesting, there's no mistake in it, but it doesn't examine the purpose of such narrative and stylistic tools, but only very broadly points them out.Still, very good.
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