Kubrick, New and Expanded Edition: Inside a Film Artist's Maze

Thomas Allen Nelson

Indiana University Press, 2000 - Performing Arts - 333 pages

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.

Contents

• THE END OF THE BEGINNING: 20
• 3: 94
• 4: 315

About the author

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

Bibliographic information

• Title: Kubrick, New and Expanded Edition: Inside a Film Artist's Maze; Film studies
• Author: Thomas Allen Nelson
• Edition: 2, illustrated, revised
• Publisher: Indiana University Press, 2000
• Original from: the University of Michigan
• Digitized: Feb 26, 2008
• ISBN: 0253213908, 9780253213907
• Length: 333 pages
• Subjects: Performing Arts / Film / Direction & Production; Performing Arts / Film / General; Performing Arts / Film / History & Criticism; Performing Arts / Individual Director