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The Kubrick Facade - Faces and Voices in the Films of Stanley Kubrick (Paperback)
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The Kubrick Facade - Faces and Voices in the Films of Stanley Kubrick (Paperback)
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Many of Stanley Kubrick's films are often interpreted as cold and
ambiguous. Whether viewing Barry Lyndon, 2001, The Shining, or Eyes
Wide Shut, there is a sense in which these films resist their own
audiences, creating a distance from them. Though many note the
coldness of Kubrick's films, a smaller number attempt to explore
exactly how his body of work elicits this particular reaction.
Fewer still attempt to articulate what it might mean to "feel"
Stanley Kubrick's films. In The Kubrick Facade, Jason Sperb
examines the narrative ambiguity of the director's films from the
voice-over narration in early works, including the once forgotten
Fear and Desire to the blank faces of characters in his later ones.
In doing so, Sperb shows how both devices struggle in vain to make
sense of the chaos and sterility of the cinematic surface. All
thirteen of Stanley Kubrick's feature-length films are discussed in
chronological order, from the little-seen and long-neglected Fear
and Desire to the posthumous release of Eyes Wide Shut. Sperb also
discusses Kubrick's importance to Steven Spielberg's AI. While
exploring all of Kubrick's films, the author concentrates in
particular on The Killing, Dr. Strangelove, 2001, The Shining, Full
Metal Jacket, and Eyes Wide Shut. This is also the first
book-length study that focuses considerable attention on Fear and
Desire and its relevance to Kubrick's larger body of work. In this
respect, The Kubrick Facade is one of the first truly comprehensive
books on narrative in the maverick director's films. It is also the
first book to integrate a discussion of AI, and the first to fully
explore the importance of the consistent visual emphasis on blank,
silent faces in his post-Lolita films.
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