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Kubrick: Inside a Film
Artist's Maze (2000).
New and Expanded Edition.
Paperback.
Paperback.
ISBN-10: 0253213908
ISBN-13: 978-0253213907
ISBN-13: 978-0253213907
Description:
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.
