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Stanley Kubrick: American Filmmaker

Stanley Kubrick: American Filmmaker

Mikics, David

Hardcover

Series: Jewish Lives

Entertainment & Performing ArtsReligious BiographiesDirectors

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ISBN10: 0300224400
ISBN13: 9780300224405
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: Aug 18 2020
Pages: 248
Weight: 0.88
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.10 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
An engrossing biography of one of the most influential filmmakers in cinematic history

A cool, cerebral book about a cool, cerebral talent. . . . A brisk study of [Kubrick's] films, with enough of the life tucked in to add context as well as brightness and bite.--Dwight Garner, New York Times

An engaging and well-researched primer to the work of a cinematic legend.--Library Journal

Kubrick grew up in the Bronx, a doctor's son. From a young age he was consumed by photography, chess, and, above all else, movies. He was a self-taught filmmaker and self-proclaimed outsider, and his films exist in a unique world of their own outside the Hollywood mainstream. Kubrick's Jewishness played a crucial role in his idea of himself as an outsider. Obsessed with rebellion against authority, war, and male violence, Kubrick was himself a calm, coolly masterful creator and a talkative, ever-curious polymath immersed in friends and family.

Drawing on interviews and new archival material, David Mikics for the first time explores the personal side of Kubrick's films.

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