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Kubrick, Stanley (1928-1999)
American filmmaker Stanley Kubrick's ambitious and evocative works include widely acknowledged masterpieces like Dr. Strangelove (1963), 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968...
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Although he first won acclaim for films he made during the 1950s such as Spartacus and Lolita, director Stanley Kubrick (1928-1999) is best known for his later work, including Dr. Strangelove, 2001: A...
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In a career spanning nearly half a century, a director might be expected to create one or perhaps two memorable films. However, by the time of his death in 1999, screenwriter-director Stanley Kubrick ...
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Stanley Kubrick is an exceptional filmmaker whose control over his films is so complete that it extends from the supervision of every production detail to the planning of elaborate advertising and dis...
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Critical Essay by Charles Thomas Samuels
From the beginning, most American filmmakers have been idiot-savants: technically brilliant but unintelligent about life. (p. 439)
Although Stanley Kubrick beg...
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Critical Essay by Daniel De Vries
One might often disagree with Kubrick's ideas, at times even find them a bit silly, but none of that detracts from the fact that Kubrick puts together picture ...
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Critical Essay by Harriet Deer and Irving Deer
Stanley Kubrick's major films reveal his search for an unrestricted form through which he can communicate with his audience without coercing them ...
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Critical Essay by Norman N. Holland
It used to be idle—or scholarly—to compare films to the novels from which they were taken; now, one can scarcely avoid it. The index to the change is ...
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Critical Essay by Tom Milne
Some directors possess an instantly recognisable signature; others, merely a consistency of style and treatment; but the worrying thing about Stanley Kubrick was the way he...
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Critical Essay by Jackson Burgess
Kubrick films are very bloody and cruel. For savage assault upon the viewer's nerves and hopes, there is little in modern film to match the protracted death-ma...
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In the following essay, Collins investigates Kubrick's use of image and metaphor in his films.
More than the average director of the current movie era, Stanley Kubrick relies on image and metap...
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In the following essay, Miers asserts that “to understand Kubrick's achievement one must attempt a reading of the mass-market book on which it is based.”
This orbe of starres fixe...
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In the following essay, Lake reflects on Kubrick's life and career.
It read like Agatha Christie: “The police were summoned to Mr. Kubrick's rural home in Hertfordshire, north of ...
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Kubrick, Stanley (1928-1999)
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Critical Essay by Charles Thomas Samuels
