Kubrick's Mitteleuropa

The Central European Imaginary in the Films of Stanley Kubrick

Nathan Abrams, Jeremi Szaniawski (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

232 Seiten

2024
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80539-645-1 (ISBN)

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Stanley Kubrick was arguably one of the most influential American directors of the post-World War II era, whose Central European Jewish heritage, though often overlooked, greatly influenced his oeuvre. Kubrick's Mitteleuropa explores this influence in ways that range from his work with Hungarian and Polish composers Béla Bartók, György Ligeti, and Krzysztof Penderecki to the visual inspiration of artists such as Egon Schiele, Gustav Klimt, and other Central European Modernists. Beyond exploring the Mitteleuropean sensibility in Kubrick's films, the contributions in this volume also provide important commentary on the reception of his films in countries across Eastern Europe.

Nathan Abrams is a professor of film, as well as thelead director for the Centre for Film, Television and Screen Studiesat Bangor University in Wales.He is a founding co-editor of Jewish Film and New Media: An International Journal, and his most recent books include Kubrick: An Odyssey (Pegasus Books, 2024), Eyes Wide Shut: Stanley Kubrick and the Making of His Final Film (Oxford University Press, 2019), and Stanley Kubrick: New York Jewish Intellectual (Rutgers University Press, 2018), as well as the edited collections Eyes Wide Shut: Behind Stanley Kubrick’s Masterpiece (Liverpool University Press, 2023), and The Bloomsbury Companion to Stanley Kubrick (Bloomsbury, 2021).

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Acknowledgments

Introduction: Kubrick and Mitteleuropa, or, a Source of Fascination and Anxiety

Jeremi Szaniawski and Nathan Abrams

Chapter 1. Kubrick’s Kunstwollen: Fin-de-Siècle Vienna and the Erotics of Authorship in Eyes Wide Shut

Maxfield Fulton

Chapter 2. The Reverberations of War: Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front and the Cinema of Stanley Kubrick

Jason Doerre

Chapter 3. From Caligari to Kubrick: Programmed Children in Weimar Cinema and Stanley Kubrick’s Science Fictions

Joy McEntee

Chapter 4. Kubrick and Kafka: The Corporeal Uncanny

Brigitte Peucker

Chapter 5. A Dark Meditation on the Human Condition: The Shining and Mitteleuropa

Geoffrey Cocks

Chapter 6. Kubrick/Schulz: Echoes of Poland in The Shining

Jeremi Szaniawski

Chapter 7. Penderecki and Kubrick

Krzysztof Kozłowski

Chapter 8. Restricted Area: On the Distribution and Reception of Stanley Kubrick’s Films in the Polish People’s Republic

Konrad Klejsa

Chapter 9. “A Sentimental Postcard to his Forefathers?”: Stanley Kubrick’s Aryan Papers (1991-1993)

Nathan Abrams

Erscheinungsdatum	10.09.2024
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-80539-645-5 / 1805396455
ISBN-13	978-1-80539-645-1 / 9781805396451
Zustand	Neuware