Jason Sperb's The Kubrick Facade: Faces and Voices in the Films of Stanley PDF

By Jason Sperb

a lot of Stanley Kubrick's movies are frequently interpreted as chilly and ambiguous. even if viewing Barry Lyndon, 2001, The Shining, or Eyes vast Shut, there's a feel during which those movies withstand their very own audiences, making a distance from them. notwithstanding many be aware the coldness of Kubrick's motion pictures, a smaller quantity try and discover precisely how his physique of labor elicits this actual response. Fewer nonetheless try to articulate what it may suggest to "feel" Stanley Kubrick's motion pictures. In The Kubrick Facade, Jason Sperb examines the narrative ambiguity of the director's films—from the voice-over narration in early works, together with the as soon as forgotten Fear and Desire—to the clean faces of characters in his later ones. In doing so, Sperb indicates how either units fight in useless to make feel of the chaos and sterility of the cinematic surface.

All 13 of Stanley Kubrick's feature-length movies are mentioned in chronological order, from the little-seen and long-neglected Fear and Desire to the posthumous liberate of Eyes vast Shut. Sperb additionally discusses Kubrick's value to Steven Spielberg's AI. whereas exploring all of Kubrick's movies, the writer concentrates particularly on The Killing, Dr. Strangelove, 2001, The Shining, Full steel Jacket, and Eyes large Shut.

This is additionally the 1st book-length learn that focuses significant consciousness on Fear and Desire and its relevance to Kubrick's greater physique of labor. during this admire, The Kubrick Facade is without doubt one of the first really accomplished books on narrative within the maverick director's motion pictures. it's also the 1st e-book to combine a dialogue of AI, and the 1st to totally discover the significance of the constant visible emphasis on clean, silent faces in his post-Lolita films.

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