After Kubrick

Jeremi Szaniawski is Assistant Professor of comparative literature and film studies in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA. He is the editor of Directory of World Cinema: Belgium and the author of The Cinema of Alexander Sokurov: Figures of Paradox (both 2014), as well as the translator, into French, of Thomas Elsaesser’s and Malte Hagener’s Film Theory: An Introduction Through the Senses (2011) and Alexander Sokurov’s V tsentre okeana (2015).

• Introduction: 1999–2019, and Beyond: A Post-Kubrickian Odyssey (Jeremi Szaniawski, UMass Amherst, USA)1. Stanley Kubrick’s Prototypes: the Author as World-Maker (Thomas Elsaesser, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands)2. “Kubrick’s Cube”: Stanley Kubrick, Judaism and his Jewish Heirs (Nathan Abrams, Bangor University, UK)3. Kubrick’s Inheritors: Aesthetics, Independence, and Philosophy in the Films of Joel and Ethan Coen (Rodney F Hill, Hofstra University, USA)4. Blurring the Lines between Victim and Perpetrator: Yorgos Lanthimos and Stanley Kubrick’s legacy (Pierre Simon Gutman, ESRA, France)5. Glimpses of Eternity: Stanley Kubrick’s Time Machines (Jeremi Szaniawski, UMass Amherst, USA)6. Kubrickian Dread: Echoes of 2001 and The Shining in Works by Jonathan Glazer, Paul Thomas Anderson, and David Lynch (Rick Warner, UNC Chapel Hill, USA)7. Excessive and Incomplete: Kubrick’s Turing (Marta Figlerowicz, Yale University, USA)8. Thus Spoke Kubrick: “Guide Pieces,” Modes of Citation and the Rise of the Temp Track (Adrian Daub, Stanford University, USA)9. Fade to Crude: Petro-Horror and Kubrick’s The Shining (Pansy Duncan, Massey University, New Zealand)10. The Anxiety of Interpretation: The Shining, Room 237I, and Film Criticism (Daniel Fairfax, Frankfurt am Main University, Germany)11. Political Opacity in the Films of Stanley Kubrick (John Pitseys, Université Catholique de Louvain-la-Neuve, France)12. Coping with the Unknown in 2001: A Space Odyssey and Interstellar (Mircea Deaca, University of Bucarest, Romania)13. Biopolitical Abjection and Sexuation: Stanley Kubrick’s Political Films (Seung-hoon Jeong, NYU Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates)14. Kubrick at the Museum: Post-cinematic Conditions, Limitations, and Possibilities (Jihoon Kim, Chung-Ang University, South Korea)15. The Dead Kitten: Sacrifice in Barry Lyndon (Alexander Nemerov, Stanford University, USA)Appendix: Interview with Gaspar Noé (Pip Chodorov, Dong-Guk University, South Korea)Index

[T]reads new ground in Kubrick-ademia.