Stanley Kubrick - Essays on His Films and Legacy

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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Inhaltsverzeichnis

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     

Über den Autor / die Autorin

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

Zusammenfassung

Presents 17 essays which examine the career and films of director Stanley Kubrick. This collection provides a 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. It also discusses his impact on filmmakers.

Produktdetails

• Mitarbeit: Gary D Rhodes (Herausgeber), Gary D. Rhodes (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: McFarland
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 01.12.2007
• EAN: 9780786432974
• ISBN: 978-0-7864-3297-4
• Seiten: 266
• Abmessung: 178 mm x 254 mm x 15 mm
• Gewicht: 507 g
• Thema: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Kunst > Fotografie, Film, Video, TV