Depth of field : Stanley Kubrick, film, and the uses of history / edited by Geoffrey Cocks, James Diedrick, and Glenn Perusek.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cocks, Geoffrey, 1948-

Diedrick, James, 1951-

Perusek, Glenn W. (Glenn Wesley), 1958-

Series:

Wisconsin film studies.

Wisconsin film studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kubrick, Stanley--Criticism and interpretation.

Kubrick, Stanley.

Physical Description:

ix, 330 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Director of some of the most controversial films of the twentieth century, Stanley Kubrick created a reputation as a Hollywood outsider as well as a cinematic genius. His diverse yet relatively small oeuvre-he directed only thirteen films during a career that spanned more than four decades-covers a broad range of the themes that shaped his century and continues to shape the twenty-first: war and crime, gender relations and class conflict, racism, and the fate of individual agency in a world of increasing social surveillance and control. In Depth of Field, leading screenwriters and scholars analyze Kubrick's films from a variety of perspectives. They examine such groundbreaking classics as Dr. Strangelove and 2001: A Space Odyssey and later films whose critical reputations are still in flux. Depth of Field ends with three viewpoints on Kubrick's final film, Eyes Wide Shut, placing it in the contexts of film history, the history and theory of psychoanalysis, and the sociology of sex and power. Probing Kubrick's whole body of work, Depth of Field is the first truly multidisciplinary study of one of the most innovative and controversial filmmakers of the twentieth century.

Contents:

Introduction : deep focus / Geoffrey Cocks, James Diedrick, Glenn Perusek

The written word and the very visual Stanley Kubrick / Vincent LoBrutto

Writing The shining / Diane Johnson

The pumpkinification of Stanley K. / Frederic Raphael

Kubrick's armies : strategy, hierarchy, and motive in the war films of Stanley Kubrick / Glenn Perusek

Subjected wills : the anti-humanism of Kubrick's later films / Pat J. Gehrke and G. L. Ercolini

2001 : a cold descent / Mark Crispin Miller

Deviant subjects in Foucault and A clockwork orange : criminological constructions of subjectivity / Pat J. Gehrke

Pictures, plurality, and puns : a visual approach to Barry Lyndon / Bille Wickre

Death by typewriter : Stanley Kubrick, the Holocaust, and The shining / Geoffrey Cocks

Full-metal-jacketing, or masculinity in the making / Paula Willoquet-Maricondi

In dreams begin responsibilities / Jonathan Rosenbaum

Freud, Schnitzler, and Eyes wide shut / Peter Loewenberg

Introducing sociology / Tim Kreider.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-307) and index.

Includes filmography: p. 301-303.

ISBN:

9786612788307

9781282788305

1282788302

9780299216139

0299216136

OCLC:

669510490