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Kubrick's Total Cinema: Philosophical Themes and Formal Qualities

Kubrick's Total Cinema: Philosophical Themes and Formal Qualities

Kuberski, Philip

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PhilosophyFilmmaking

ISBN10: 1628929472
ISBN13: 9781628929478
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: Feb 13 2014
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

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 de-realizes 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 elements of Kubrick's total cinema.

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