Publisher's Synopsis
Providing a critical study of the work of Stanley Kubrick, this text offers both a formal analysis of his films, based on style and narrative pattern, and a theoretical, post-modernist approach to ideas presented in the films. The author is particularly concerned to analyze the relevance of spectacle in Kubrick's films, seeing it as a disruptive mechanism which can call into question the value and necessity of communication. He identifies different kinds of spectacle in the films, and proceeds to a detailed examination of these different forms in "2001: a Space Odyssey", "Barry Lyndon" and "Full Metal Jacket".
