| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 233 pages) : illustrations |
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Jewish lives |
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Jewish lives (New Haven, Conn.)
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| Contents |
1. I know I can make a film better than that : Killer's kiss, The killing -- 2. Keep doing it until it is right : Paths of glory, Spartacus, Lolita -- 3. Total final annihilating artistic control : Dr. Strangelove -- 4. The Tower of Babel was the start of the Space Age : 2001 : a space odyssey -- 5. Let's open with a Sicilian defence : A clockwork orange -- 6. You can talk for hours about a thing with Stanley : Barry Lyndon -- 7. Something inherently wrong with the human personality : The shining -- 8. Make sure it's big--Lon Chaney big : Full metal jacket -- 9. frightened of making the movie: Eyes wide shut |
| Summary |
An engrossing biography of one of the most influential filmmakers in cinematic history Kubrick grew up in the Bronx, a doctor's son. From a young age he was consumed by photography, chess, and, above all else, movies. He was a self taught filmmaker and self-proclaimed outsider, and his films exist in a unique world of their own outside the Hollywood mainstream. Kubrick's Jewishness played a crucial role in his idea of himself as an outsider. Obsessed with rebellion against authority, war, and male violence, Kubrick was himself a calm, coolly masterful creator and a talkative, ever curious polymath immersed in friends and family. Drawing on interviews and new archival material, Mikics for the first time explores the personal side of Kubrick's films |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-222) and index |
| Notes |
In English |
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Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (OverDrive ebooks, viewed on June 14, 2022) |
| Subject |
Kubrick, Stanley.
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| SUBJECT |
Kubrick, Stanley fast |
| Subject |
Motion picture producers and directors -- United States -- Biography
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Entertainment & Performing Arts.
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Motion picture producers and directors
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780300255614 |
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0300255616 |
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