Gender, power, and identity in the films of Stanley Kubrick / edited by Karen A. Ritzenhoff, Dijana Metlić, Jeremi Szaniawski.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Metlić, Dijana, editor.

Szaniawski, Jeremi, editor.

A. Ritzenhoff, Karen, editor.

Series:

Routledge Advances in Film Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kubrick, Stanley--Criticism and interpretation.

Kubrick, Stanley.

Motion pictures--Production and direction.

Motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (352 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Routledge, [2022]

Summary:

"This volume features a set of thought-provoking and long overdue approaches to situating Stanley Kubrick's films in contemporary debates around gender, race, and age - with a focus on women's representations. Offering new historical and critical perspectives on Kubrick's cinema, the book asks how his work should be viewed bearing in mind issues of gender equality, sexual harassment, and abuse. The authors tackle issues such as Kubrick's at times questionable relationships with his actresses and former wives, the dynamics of power, misogyny and miscegenation in his films, and auteur 'apologism', among others. The selection delineates these complex contours of Kubrick's work by drawing on archival sources, engaging in close readings of specific films, and exploring Kubrick through unorthodox venture points. With an interdisciplinary scope and social justice-centered focus, this book offers new perspectives on a well-established area of study. It will appeal to scholars and upper-level students of film studies, media studies, gender studies, and visual culture, as well as to fans of the director interested in revisiting his work with a new perspective"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Endorsement Page

Half Title

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Table of Contents

List of Figures

List of Contributors

Introduction

"Hacking Kubrick": Our Contributors' Chapters Summarized

Gender, Power, Identity, and Beyond

Acknowledgments

Films

Notes

Chapter 1: The Problems with Lolita (1962)

Context for Lolita

Auteur Apologism and Women's Film History

Conditions of Production

Conclusion

Films and Television

Chapter 2: Sue Lyon and the Consequences of the "Lolita Look"

Closed and Open Spaces

Nabokov: No Girl on the Cover!

Kubrick and Sue Lyon: They Did It, Lolita Is a Movie!

The Press of the 1960s and Sue Lyon's Lolita

The "Lolita Look"

Chapter 3: The Legacy of Spartacus (1960) in the Depiction of Ancient Slavery On-Screen: Draba and His Heirs

The Black Male Gladiator

Glycon: Demetrius and the Gladiators (1954)

Draba: Spartacus (1960)

Juba: Gladiator (2000)

Draba: Spartacus (2004)

Oenomaus: Spartacus (2010-13)

Atticus: Pompeii (2014)

Chapter 4: From Female Stereotypes to Women with Agency: Elite Women and Slave Women in Howard Fast's 1951 Novel, Spartacus (1960), and Starz Spartacus (2010-13)

The Romans: Helena and Claudia Reimagined

The Power to Look: Looking and Being Looked At

The Warrior Woman: Varina Regains Her Sword

Chapter 5: Fear and Desire, Casual Misogyny, and 1950s Art House Cinema

The Film and Its Context

Art Cinema in Mid-20th-Century America

Exploitation in Marketing Fear and Desire

Art and Exploitation in Kubrick Films

Notes.

Chapter 6: The Shining and UK Feminist Activism

The "Yorkshire Ripper" Case, Toxic Masculinity, and the Popularity of the Horror Genre (circa 1980)

The Shift in Advertising The Shining

Tailoring the Product to National Markets

The Feminist Backlash against Violence Done to Women (and Protesting The Shining)

Between Film Culture and Rape Culture: "Men in Public Places"

Echoes in the Press

Chapter 7: Mothers Trapped between Law, Economy, Society, and Desire

Spartacus

Lolita and A Clockwork Orange

Barry Lyndon and Eyes Wide Shut

The Shining

Chapter 8: A Feminist Kubrick?: Or, What If Women Were the Main Character(s) in Stanley Kubrick's Films?

Kubrick's mise-en-scène of Women

A Female Odyssey

Eyes Wide Open on Feminism

Conclusion: What about Today?

Chapter 9: Kubrick's and Klimt's Femmes Fatales : Eyes Wide Shut and the Crisis of Masculine Identity

Femme Fatale: Fear or Desire?

Intellectual Life in Vienna at the Turn of the Century

Klimt and Kubrick: Social Roles and Sexual Drives

Women's Hopes and Dreams

Chapter 10: Kubrick and Sex: Exploring the Gender Politics of His Cinema

Representations of Women: (In-)Frequency and Characteristics

Kubrick and Rape Culture

Dramatizing Rape Myths

Rape and Dominance

Irony or Ideology?

Toxic Masculinity: War and Manhood

The Privileges of Patriarchy: Mothers and Whores

Chapter 11: Kubrick's Crypto-Jewesses

Reading Jewish in Kubrick's Films

Pentimenti

Chapter 12: Misogyny and Music in A Clockwork Orange

Introduction.

Music and Characterization

Music, Gender, Power

Women and Music in the Film

Alex's Assault on the Alexanders

The Ludovico Effect

Chapter 13: Wendy Torrance and Alice Harford, Shrews Who Will Not Be Tamed

Marriage Stories

Bodies and Voices

Women in Arms

Chapter 14: Violence and Power in Kubrick's Later Cinema

Striking the Ancien Régime

American Superpower

Toward a Reappraisal of Kubrick's Humanism

Chapter 15: Female Transgression and Discontent in Barry Lyndon

Nora Brady: Find the Ribbon

Barry's Mother: Oedipal or Class Narrative?

Lady Lyndon: Elegant Carpets and the Eyes of Discontent

Chapter 16: Kubrick and Bergman: Scenes from a Marriage

The Horror of Marriage

Confessions and Adulteries

Chapter 17: Someone to Care About: Children in Stanley Kubrick's Films

Brutalization: The Shining

Nostalgia

Race

Queer Innocence

Chapter 18: Old Age, Aging, and Fatherhood in Kubrick

The Passage of Time

Aged Fathers

A Clockwork Orange

Barry Lyndon

Plays

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781003208174

1003208177

9781000772036

1000772039

9781000771992

1000771997

OCLC:

1343245608