Kubrick's Total Cinema

Philosophical Themes And Formal Qualities

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by Philip Kuberski

Type

Studies

Subject

Director > Stanley Kubrick

Keywords

Stanley Kubrick

Publishing date

2014

Publisher

Bloomsbury Academic

1st publishing

2012

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 200 pages
6 x 9 inches (15 x 23 cm)

ISBN

978-1-62892-947-8

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Book Presentation:
Whatever people think about Kubrick's work, most would agree that there is something distinctive, even unique, about the films he made: a coolness, an intellectual clarity, a critical edginess, and finally an intractable ambiguity. In an attempt to isolate the Kubrick difference, this book treats Kubrick's films to a conceptual and formal analysis rather than a biographical and chronological survey.

As Kubrick's cinema moves between the possibilities of human transcendence dramatized in 2001: A Space Odyssey and the dismal limitations of human nature exhibited in A Clockwork Orange, the filmmaker's style "de-realizes" cinematic realism while, paradoxically, achieving an unprecedented frankness of vision and documentary and technical richness. The result is a kind of vertigo: the audience is made aware of both the de-realized and the realized nature of cinema. As opposed to the usual studies providing a summary and commentary of individual films, this will be the first to provide an analysis of the "elements" of Kubrick's total cinema.

About the Author:
Philip Kuberski is Professor of English at Wake Forest University and the author of three books and a number of essays on modern literature and its relations to science, technology, and mythology.

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