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Kubrick, New and Expanded Edition

Kubrick, New and Expanded Edition Inside a Film Artist's Maze

New and Expanded Edition edition

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Publisher's Synopsis

Stanley Kubrick ranks among the most important American film makers of his generation, but his work is often misunderstood because it is widely diverse in subject matter and seems to lack thematic and tonal consistency. Thomas Nelson's perceptive and comprehensive study of Kubrick rescues him from the hostility of auteurist critics and discovers the roots of a Kubrickian aesthetic, which Nelson defines as the "aesthetics of contingency."
After analyzing how this aesthetic develops and manifests itself in the early works, Nelson devotes individual chapters to Lolita, Dr. Stangelove, 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, Barry Lyndon, and The Shining.
For this expanded edition, Nelson has added chapters on Full Metal Jacket and Eyes Wide Shut, and, in the wake of the director's death, reconsidered his body of work as a whole. By placing Kubrick in a historical and theoretical context, this study is a reliable guide into-and out of-Stanley Kubrick's cinematic maze.

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Indiana University Press

Book information

ISBN: 9780253213907
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Imprint: Indiana University Press
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Edition: New and Expanded Edition edition
Language: English
Number of pages: 352
Weight: 130g
Height: 178mm
Width: 112mm
Spine width: 14mm