Description:
This volume features a set of thought-provoking and long overdue approaches to situating Stanley Kubrick's films in contemporary debates around gender, race, and age - with a focus on women's representations.
Review Quotes:
"To anyone interested in re-reading Kubrick's films through the lens of contemporary sensibilities, this anthology is essential: with perceptive, varied, and even conflicting results, its essays are thought-provoking and prove that Kubrick's work is still very much alive."
Filippo Ulivieri, screenwriter; leading expert on Stanley Kubrick's cinema in Italy
"Ritzenhoff, Metlic and Szaniawski marshal an eye-opening reappraisal of Stanley Kubrick's films by trading the dominant narrative of auteurism for a focus on Kubrick's "others." Armed with great disciplinary range, the chapters investigate Kubrick's representations of women, racialized people, children, the elderly, of queerness, Jewishness, phallicism, patriarchy, and misogyny. This is essential reading on the films and their engagement with tropes of western sexual politics, race, and global capitalism."
Kate McQuiston, Professor of Music, The University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
"Frequently provocative and contrarian this expertly curated collection of essays stimulates a reassessment -- if not revision -- of core themes, motifs and conventions that undergirds Kubrick's cinematic art. There is plenty here to challenge and confront the most ardent of Kubrick fans and scholars. Highly recommended."
Mick Broderick, Curtin and RMIT Universities, Australia, author of Reconstructing Kubrick (2017), editor of Post-Kubrick (2017) and The Kubrick Legacy (2019)