ISBN: HB: 9780300224405
October 2020
248 pp.
21,0x14,6 cm
11 black&white illus.
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£18.99
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Stanley Kubrick
American Filmmaker
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, Mikics for the first time explores the personal side of Kubrick's films.
Drawing on interviews and new archival material, Mikics for the first time explores the personal side of Kubrick's films.
About the author
David Mikics is professor of English at the University of Houston. He is the author of several books, including "The Limits of Moralizing: Pathos and Subjectivity in Spenser and Milton" and "The Romance of Individualism in Emerson and Nietzsche".