Critical insights / Stanley Kubrick ; editor, Peter J. Bailey, St. Lawrence University, Canton, New York.

Other author Bailey, Peter J., 1946-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoIpswich, Massachusetts : Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services, Inc. : Grey House Publishing, [2016]
Descriptionxiv, 277 pages ; 24 cm.
Supplemental ContentFull text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost
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Other title Stanley Kubrick,
SeriesCritical insights.
Critical insights. ^A1030970
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.
Abstract 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 259-261) and index.
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Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2017275935
ISBN9781682171080 (hardcover)
ISBN1682171086 (hardcover)
Standard identifier# 99970619241

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