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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Editor Gary D. Rhodes, a documentary filmmaker, is a professor at the Queen's University, Belfast. He is also the author of Lugosi: His Life in Films, on Stage, and in the Hearts of Horror Lovers (1997; paperback 2006), and White Zombie: Anatomy of a Horror Film (2001; paperback 2006), editor of Horror at the Drive-In (2003), and co-editor (with John Parris Springer) of Docufictions (2006), all from McFarland.
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Robert Simpson is a film historian and archivist, writer and broadcaster. He has written for numerous magazines including Film Ireland, Little Shoppe of Horrors and Diabolique (which he also edits). Perhaps best known for his scholarship of Hammer Films and sister company Exclusive he is currently engaged on a number of books of film history. He lives with his wife, step-daughter, and dog, Bowie in the Northern Irish countryside.
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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 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 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 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
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