Kubrick's Total Cinema (eBook)

Philosophical Themes and Formal Qualities

Kuberski Philip Kuberski (Autor)

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2012
208 Seiten
Bloomsbury Publishing (USA) (Verlag)
978-1-4411-4956-5 (ISBN)

Infos

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 "e;de-realizes"e; 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 "e;elements"e; of Kubrick's total cinema.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 9.8.2012
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Geschichtstheorie / Historik
• ISBN-10: 1-4411-4956-2 / 1441149562
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4411-4956-5 / 9781441149565