Stanley Kubrick American filmmaker / David Mikics.

Author/creator Mikics, David, 1961-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoNew Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2020]
Descriptionviii, 233 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Supplemental ContentFull text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subjects

SeriesJewish lives
Jewish lives (New Haven, Conn.) ^A1036261
Contents 1. I Know I Can Make a Film Better Than That: Killer's Kiss, The Killing -- 2. Keep Doing It Until It Is Right: Paths of Glory, Spartacus, Lolita -- 3. Total Final Annihilating Artistic Control: Dr. Strangelove -- 4. The Tower of Babel Was the Start of the Space Age: 2001: A Space Odyssey -- 5. Let's Open with a Sicilian Defence: A Clockwork Orange -- 6. You Can Talk for Hours about a Thing with Stanley: Barry Lyndon -- 7. Something Inherently Wrong with the Human Personality: The Shining -- 8. Make Sure It's Big -- Lon Chaney Big: Full Metal Jacket -- 9. Frightened of Making the Movie: Eyes Wide Shut.
Summary An engrossing biography of one of the most influential filmmakers in cinematic history, Kubrick grew up in the Bronx, a doctor's son. From a young age he was consumed by photography, chess, and, above all else, movies. He was a self-taught filmmaker and self-proclaimed outsider, and his films exist in a unique world of their own outside the Hollywood mainstream. Kubrick's Jewishness played a crucial role in his idea of himself as an outsider. Obsessed with rebellion against authority, war, and male violence, Kubrick was himself a calm, coolly masterful creator and a talkative, ever-curious polymath immersed in friends and family. Drawing on interviews and new archival material, Mikics for the first time explores the personal side of Kubrick's films.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 205-222) and index.
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Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2019955073
ISBN9780300224405 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN0300224400 (hardcover : alk. paper)