A Critical Companion to Stanley Kubrick. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Elsa Colombani, Jerold J. Abrams, James R. Britton, Rachel Cole, Elsa Colombani, Carol Donelan, James Fenwick, William Gombash, Vincent Jaunas, Paul Johnson, Gilles Menegaldo, Guillaume Mouleux, Maurizia Natali, Annie Nissen, Sean O’Reilly, Anne-Marie Paquet-Deyris, Joshua Sikora, Carl Sweeney, Madison Mae Williams.
• Editors: Colombani, Elsa
• Other Names: Abrams, Jerold J contributor.; Britton, James R contributor.; Cole, Rachel contributor.; Colombani, Elsa contributor.; Donelan, Carol contributor.; Fenwick, James contributor.; Gombash, William contributor.; Jaunas, Vincent contributor.; Johnson, Paul contributor.; Menegaldo, Gilles contributor.; Mouleux, Guillaume contributor.; Natali, Maurizia contributor.; Nissen, Annie contributor.; O'Reilly, Sean contributor.; Paquet-Deyris, Anne-Marie contributor.; Sikora, Joshua contributor.; Sweeney, Carl contributor.; Williams, Madison Mae contributor.
• Contents: Part I. Bending Genres 1. Mental Landscapes and Subdued Bodies in Killer’s Kiss – Vincent Jaunas 2. Burning Down the House in Kubrick’s The Shining – Anne-Marie Paquet-Deyris 3. Kubrick’s Gangster Artistry: Contradiction and Hybridity in The Killing – Carol Donelan 4. Adapting Lolita: Hybridizing and Subverting Genre Conventions – Gilles Menegaldo 5. History by Candlelight: How Stanley Kubrick Revolutionized Depictions of the Past on Film – Sean O’Reilly 6. Intertextuality, Distortion and Echoes of World War II in Stanley Kubrick’s War Films – Guillaume Mouleux Part II. Master of Chaos and Transgression 7. The Philosophy of War in Dr. Strangelove – Jerold J. Abrams 8. Stanley Kubrick and the Cinema of Chaos: The Theater of War – William Gombash 9. Joker’s Ideological Becoming: The Limits of Irony in Full Metal Jacket – James R. Britton 10. “Violence is a Very Horrible Thing”: Brechtian Alienation Effect in Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange – Madison Mae Williams 11. Reading Reality in A Clockwork Orange: Film Censorship, Metalepsis and “Media Effects” – Rachel Cole 12. Through a Glass, Darkly: The Slow Rise of Women in Barry Lyndon, The Shining and Eyes Wide Shut – Elsa Colombani Part III. The Visionary Auteur 13. Kirk Douglas and Stanley Kubrick: Reconsidering a Creative and Business Partnership – James Fenwick 14. Auteur vs. Author: Kubrick’s Relationship with Literary Writers – Annie Nissen 15. “May I have the password?”: Heterotopic Space in Eyes Wide Shut – Carl Sweeney 16. The Spectacle of Time, (Slow) motion and Stillness in the Films of Stanley Kubrick – Paul Johnson 17. 2001: A Space Odyssey: Kubrick’s Allegory of Melancholia – Maurizia Natali 18. The Everlasting Moment: Enchantment and Myth in A.I. and 2001: A Space Odyssey – Joshua Sikora
• Publisher Details: Lexington Books
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource (294 pages)
• Subjects: Performing Arts: Film / History & Criticism; Social Science: Media Studies
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781793613776
• Related ISBNs: 179361377X
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