Making Time in Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon: Art, History, and Empire

Maria Pramaggiore

Bloomsbury Academic, Jan 1, 2015 - Performing Arts - 224 pages

Considered by critics to be Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece, Barry Lyndon has suffered from scholarly and popular neglect. Maria Pramaggiore argues that one key reason that this film remains unappreciated, even by Kubrick aficionados, is that its transnational and intermedial contexts have not been fully explored. Taking a novel approach, she looks at the film from a transnational perspective -- as a foreign production shot in Ireland and an adaptation of a British novel by an American director about an Irish subject. Pramaggiore argues that, in Barry Lyndon, Kubrick develops his richest philosophical mediation on cinema's capacity to mediate the real and foregrounds film's relationship to other technologies of visuality, including painting, photography, and digital media.
By combining extensive research into the film's source novel, production and reception with systematic textual analysis and an engagement with several key issues in contemporary academic debate, this work promises not only to make a huge impact in the field of Kubrick studies, but also in 1970s filmmaking, cultural history and transnational film practice.

About the author

Maria Pramaggiore is Head of Media Studies at the National University of Ireland at Maynooth. She has published four books, two on Irish cinema, and one a co-authored textbook, Film: A Critical Introduction (2011; with Tom Wallis), now in its third edition.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Making Time in Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon: Art, History, and Empire
• Author: Maria Pramaggiore
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015
• ISBN: 1441198075, 9781441198075
• Length: 224 pages
• Subjects: History / Europe / General; Performing Arts / Film / Direction & Production