Stanley Kubrick : adapting the sublime / Elisa Pezzotta.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pezzotta, Elisa.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kubrick, Stanley--Criticism and interpretation.

Kubrick, Stanley.

Literature--Adaptations--History and criticism.

Literature.

Film adaptations--History and criticism.

Film adaptations.

Literature--Adaptations.

Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

x, 230 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2013]

Summary:

Although Stanley Kubrick adapted novels and short stories, his films deviate in notable ways from the source material. In particular, since 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), his films seem to definitively exploit all cinematic techniques, embodying a compelling visual and aural experience. But, as author Elisa Pezzotta contends, it is for these reasons that his cinema becomes the supreme embodiment of the sublime, fruitful encounter between the two arts and, simultaneously, of their independence. Stanley Kubrick's last six adaptations-2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange (1971), Barry Lyndon (1975), The Shining (1980), Full Metal Jacket (1987), and Eyes Wide Shut (1999)-are characterized by certain structural and stylistic patterns. These features help to draw conclusions about the role of Kubrick in the history of cinema, about his role as an adapter, and, more generally, about the art of cinematic adaptations. The structural and stylistic patterns that characterize Kubrick adaptations seem to criticize scientific reasoning, causality, and traditional semantics. In the history of cinema, Kubrick can be considered a modernist auteur. In particular, he can be regarded as an heir of the modernist avant-garde of the 1920s. However, author Elise Pezzotta concludes that, unlike his predecessors, Kubrick creates a cinema not only centered on the ontology of the medium, but on the staging of sublime, new experiences. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction

A history of Kubrick adaptations

Plot construction: ellipses and enigmas of unrelated

Scenes

Plot construction: a chaotic geometry

Music, dance, and dialogue

Dreamy worlds

Artificiality, modernism, and the sublime

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Pezzotta, Elisa. Stanley Kubrick

ISBN:

9781617038938

1617038938

OCLC:

828265138