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Stanley Kubrick / editor, Peter J. Bailey, St. Lawrence University, Canton, New York.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Critical insights.
- Critical Insights
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Kubrick, Stanley.
- Motion picture producers and directors--United States.
- Motion picture producers and directors.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 277 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Ipswich, Massachusetts : Salem Press ; Amenia, NY : Grey House Publishing, [2016]
- Summary:
- This book provides readers with essays that analyze the legendary director, Stanley Kubrick, and his techniques in such films as "2001: A Space Odyssey", "A Clockwork Orange", "The Shining", and "Full Metal Jacket". All of the essays are written by renowned film scholars of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and provide in-depth, academic coverage of all key issues and interpretations.
- Contents:
- About this volume / Peter J. Bailey
- Career, life, and influence
- On Stanley Kubrick: who's afraid of Room 237? / Peter J. Bailey
- Biography of Stanley Kubrick / Frances Weller Bailey
- Critical contexts
- Bullets, bombs, and blastoffs: Kubrick's twentieth century / Frances Weller Bailey
- Critical cruxes of Kubrick / Peter J. Bailey
- Through the looking glass: Stanley Kubrick and narratology / J. Andrew Gothard
- The ice man and the wood man: Stanley Kubrick and Woody Allen / Peter J. Bailey
- Critical readings
- "What's the difference": The killing and Kubrickian fatalism / Richard Jenseth
- L'affaire Kubrick: Paths of glory, a Franco-American reading / Roy Caldwell
- "Is that you, John Wayne? Is this me?": the citizen-soldier in Paths of glory and Full metal jacket / William Brigham
- A farce to be reckoned with: the literary contexts of Dr. Strangelove / William Hutchings
- The mechanics of mistrust: techno-antagonism in the films of Stanley Kubrick / Erik Esckilsen
- An actor's director: Kubrick and star performances / Rebecca Bell-Metereau
- Short-circuiting identification: the pleasure and displeasure of the cinema of Stanley Kubrick / Stephen Papson
- Human objects: anthropoid props, simulacra, and iconic actors in Kubrick's films / Sidney L. Sondergard
- Don't ask, don't tell: masculine evasion and crisis in Stanley Kubrick's Eyes wide shut / Cynthia Lucia
- Resources
- Awards and honors
- Stanley Kubrick: chronology
- Stanley Kubrick: filmography
- Stanley Kubrick: a select bibliography
- About the editor
- Contributors
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on: online resource; title from pdf title page (Gale Virtual Reference Library, viewed July 2, 2019).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781682171097
- 1682171094
- OCLC:
- 963933871
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