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Kubrick's total cinema : philosophical themes and formal qualities

Kuberski, Philip

2012

Overview

\"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.\"--Publisher's website.

• Publisher: Continuum
• Subject: Kubrick, Stanley Criticism and interpretation. / Motion picture producers and directors United States.
• ISBN: 9781441156877, 1441156879

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
PN1998.3.K83 K825 2012	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE