- Paperback: 272 pages
- Publisher: British Film Institute; 1 edition (Jan 22 2008)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1844571424
- ISBN-13: 978-1844571420
- Product Dimensions: 24.8 x 18.9 x 2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 862 g
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This book is a critical study of Stanley Kubrick's career, beginning with his earliest feature, Fear and Desire (1953), and ending with his posthumous production of A.I., Artificial Intelligence (2001). This book argues that in several respects Kubrick was one of the cinema's last modernists.
About the Author
James Naremore is Emeritus Chancellors' Professor of Communication and Culture and English at Indiana University. Previous publications include: More than Night: Film Noir in Its Contexts.
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Best Book on Kubrick, Dec 3 2008
By Mark L. Ayala "HiroyukiSakaiFan69" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: On Kubrick (Paperback)
When I read James Naremore was doing a book on Kubrick, and it was being published for the BFI no less, I knew this book would be excellent.I've previously read work's by James Naremore including his Magic of Orson Welles book and have heard is excellent commentary on Mr. Arkadin. This book goes into great, great detail about all the layers of a Kubrick film. I was already in loce with Kubrick by the point I read this book, but this truly peeled off all the layers of the film, everything from his obsession with faces to his obesession of scatalogical situations in Full Metal Jacket.
I don't know if any schools have a class dedicated to the films of Stanley Kubrick, but if there were, this should be the text book. He spends so much time on all films, and especially on my personal favorite, Barry Lyndon. He compares themes and ideas that have been in his films since Killer's, and doesn't waste any words in descirbing the films.
This one is on the top of my desert island cinema books.
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well written and researched..., Mar 27 2011
By Kwisatz Haderack - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: On Kubrick (Paperback)
Besides Orson Welles, Kubrick simply has to be one of the most written-about directors in film history, so it is especially important that new works on him are original and have a meaningful contribution to offer. On Kubrick does this and more, providing an incisive analysis that distills the essence of his films and lets the reader gain a much more comprehensive understanding of the themes and motifs of his work. What I like about Naremore's book is that he goes beyond the overly formalistic-based analysis that encompasses much of the scholarly books already done on Kubrick (which can't be faulted too much given that Kubrick was a formalist) and intelligently contextualizes it to glean its genesis. Overall an excellent work that I will be reading again.
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An Intensive Look at His Films, Not a Biography, May 23 2009
By The JuRK - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: On Kubrick (Paperback)
Although you do learn quite a bit of biographical information, by the way.I've read quite a few books on Stanley Kubrick since his death ten years ago just before the release of his final film, EYES WIDE SHUT. There wasn't much to read before! The intensely-private filmmaker had left only some interviews and his body of work up to that point--but what a body of work it was: while traveling through Europe in 2007, I kept seeing a Kubrick film playing wherever I went. LOLITA was on a marquee in Vienna and I watched EYES WIDE SHUT dubbed in German in Berlin to see the European version (without the CGI inserts during the orgy scene).
While in Santa Monica last month, I saw this book and bought it for my Stanley Kubrick shelf at home. It's very well-written and illuminating even for me, a lifelong Kubrick fan. Details about the creation of the films, how they were filmed, and related materials give a full study to each one. The author also discusses different drafts and endings that Kubrick considered on each film.
If I had any quibbles, it would only be disagreements about a few things. I think THE SHINING was a weak horror film, too slowly paced for a modern horror audience and too ineffectual since Kubrick didn't believe in an afterlife(!). I also thought that Tom Cruise wasn't quite right for EYES WIDE SHUT (he can do fighter pilots, secret agents and just about any action hero, but a New York doctor on a dark sexual odyssey was just beyond his abilities). Also, the author makes an excellent point about Kubrick's obsession with "grotesques" but misquotes a line from FULL METAL JACKET: Sgt. Hartmann asks Private Pyle if his parents had any children that lived and Pyle replies, "Sir, yes, sir!" Hartmann actually says, "Well, I'll bet they regret that!" (NOT "I'll bet they're grotesque!").
But these are very minor notes. If you enjoyed Kubrick's films or have a curiosity about them, this is an excellent study of them. Check it out.
(And if you're a huge Kubrick fan, be sure to check out THE STANLEY KUBRICK ARCHIVES. I got the original printing of that monster volume that included a strip of 70mm from 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY and enjoyed it so much that I bought a copy to give to Joe Turkel, who played in PATHS OF GLORY and was Lloyd the ghostly bartender in THE SHINING when I got to meet him.)
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