Understanding Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey (eBook)

Representation and Interpretation

James Fenwick (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018
260 Seiten
Intellect Books Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-78320-864-7 (ISBN)

Infos

An exploration of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey that combines ‘new’ empirical approaches with ‘old’ formalist approaches. This provides a broader understanding of how Kubrick’s methods as a director and auteur were developed to produce a unique aesthetic creation that is still years ahead in its design, vision and philosophical structure.

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Scholars have been studying the films of Stanley Kubrick for decades. This book, however, breaks new ground by bringing together recent empirical approaches to Kubrick with earlier formalist approaches to arrive at a broader understanding of the ways in which Kubrick's methods were developed to create the unique aesthetic creation that is 2001: A Space Odyssey. More than 50 years after its release, contributors explore the film's still striking design, vision and philosophical structure, offering new insights and analyses that will give even dedicated Kubrick fans new ways of thinking about the director and his masterpiece.

Autor

lt;p>James Fenwick is a senior lecturer in media and communications at Sheffield Hallam University.

Inhalt

Introduction: Forging new perspectives

James Fenwick

Part One: Narrative and Adaptation

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Chapter One: ‘God, it’ll be hard topping the H-bomb’: Kubrick’s search for a new obsession in the path from Dr. Strangelove to 2001: A Space Odyssey

Simone Odino

Chapter Two: 2001: A Space Odyssey: A transcendental trans-locution

Suparno Banerjee

Chapter Three: Four-colour Kubrick: Jack Kirby’s 2001: A Space Odyssey as adaptation and extension

Dru Jeffries

Part Two: Performance

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Chapter Four: Performing the man-ape in ‘The Dawn of Man’: Daniel Richter and The American Mime Theatre

James Fenwick

Chapter Five: Life functions terminated: Actors’ performances and the aesthetics of distanced subjectivity in 2001: A Space Odyssey

Vincent Jaunas

Part Three: Technology

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Chapter Six: From technical to cinematographic objects in 2001: A Space Odyssey

Antoine Balga-Prévost

Chapter Seven: Homo machinus: Kubrick’s two HALs and the evolution of Chapter Seven: Homo machinus: Kubrick’s two HALs and the evolution of monstrous machines

Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper

Part Four: Masculinity and the Astronaut

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Chapter Eight: Clarke and Kubrick’s 2001: A queer odyssey

Dominic Janes

Chapter Nine: ‘But as to whether or not he has feelings is something I don’t think anyone can truthfully answer’: The image of the astronaut in 2001: A Space Odyssey and its lasting impact

Nils Daniel Peiler

Part Five: Visual Spectacle

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Chapter Ten: Negative/Positive: Metaphors of photography in 2001: A Space Odyssey

Caterina Martino

Chapter Eleven: The sublime in 2001: A Space Odyssey

Rachel Walisko

Part Six: Production

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Chapter Twelve: 2001: A comprehensive chronology

Filippo Ulivieri

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.7.2018
• Verlagsort: Bristol
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: 2001 • 20th century film • Cinema • Empiricism in Film • Film • Film and Philosophy • Film Culture • Film History • Film Studies • Formalist Cinema • Futuristic • Kubrick • odyssey • Science Fiction • scientific realism • screenplay • space • Transcendental Film • Vision
• ISBN-10: 1-78320-864-3 / 1783208643
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78320-864-7 / 9781783208647