Kubrick, Inside a Film Artist's Maze - Softcover

Nelson, Thomas A

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0253202833 ISBN 13: 9780253202833

Publisher: Indiana University Press, 1982

Synopsis

This expanded edition of Thomas Nelson's trenchant study of a master of film includes new chapters on "Full Metal Jacket" and "Eyes Wide Shut". In the wake of the director's death, Nelson reconsiders 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. 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 analysing 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.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

After analyzing the manner in which his aesthetic develops and manifests itself in Kubrick's early films, Nelson devotes individual chapters to Lolita, Dr. Strangelove, 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, Barry Lyndon, and The Shining.

About the Author:

Thomas Allen Nelson is Professor of English at San Diego State University and author of Shakespeare's Comic Theory.

About this edition

• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Publication date: 1982
• ISBN 10: 0253202833
• ISBN 13: 9780253202833
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 268