Kubrick's 2001 : a triple allegory / Leonard F. Wheat.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wheat, Leonard F., 1931-2014

Contributor:

Bloomsbury (Firm), publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

2001, a space odyssey (Motion picture).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (188 p.)

Distribution:

New York : Bloomsbury Publishing(US), 2000.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, MD : Scarecrow Press, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Three allegories-an Odysseus (Homer) allegory, a man-machine symbiosis (Arthur Clarke) allegory, and a Zarathustra (Nietzsche) allegory-are simultaneously concealed and revealed by well over 200 highly imaginative and sometimes devilishly clever symbols. In bringing Kubrick's secrets to light, Wheat builds a powerful case for his assertion that 2001 is the ""grandest motion picture ever filmed.""

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Table of Contents; 1. Introduction; Where the Answers Lie; Allegory and Kubrick's Allegorical Symbols; A Preview of Coming Attractions; 2. The Surface Story; The Basic Narrative; Fuzzy Areas of the Narrative; 3. The Odysseus Allegory; Dave Bowman's Name; The African Monolith; The Judgment of Paris; Heywood R. Floyd's Name; Heywood Floyd as Paris; Heywood Floyd as Menelaus; The Trojan Horse and the Fall of Troy; The City of Ismarus and Lotus Land; The Cyclops Monster; The Laestrygonian Rock Attack; The Sirens; The Surf, Charybdis, and Scylla

Hyperion and ZeusSeven Years with Calypso; Phaeacian Hospitality; Pallas Athene; Penelope, Her Suitors, and the Great Bow; Slaying the Suitors; Reunion with Penelope; 4. The Man-Machine Symbiosis Allegory; Overview of the Allegory; The Dawn of Man; The Evolution of Humanoid Machines; Hal-Discovery as a Genuine Humanoid; The Death of Homo Machinus; The Evolution of Homo Futurus; What about Freud and Jung?; 5. The Zarathustra Allegory: Background and Cast; Nietzsche's Characters and Themes; Interpretive Progress; The Monoliths as Human Attributes; Frank Poole as the Rope Dancer

Heywood Floyd as the Young ZarathustraDave Bowman as the Older Zarathustra and Overman; Hal-Discovery as God; 6. The Zarathustra Allegory: The Action; The Death of God; The Immediate Aftermath; Man into Overman; Appendix A: Fallacies in Zarathustra's Eternal Recurrence Argument; Appendix B: List of the Zarathustra Allegory's 160 Symbols; 7. Evaluation; 2001's Critical Stature in the Absence of Allegory; The Quality of the Allegory and Symbolism; One Man's Opinion; Bibliography; Index; About the Author

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-165) and index.

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

ISBN:

979-88-8184-003-7

1-4616-6023-8

OCLC:

1249709438