Eyes Wide Shut

Robert P. Kolker taught cinema studies for almost 50 years. He is author of A Cinema of Loneliness, The Extraordinary Image: Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick and the Reimagining of Cinema, and editor of 2001: A Space Odyssey: New Essays and The Oxford Handbook of Film and Media Studies.Nathan Abrams is Professor in Film at Bangor University in Wales. He is founding co-editor of Jewish Film and New Media: An International Journal, as well as the author of The New Jew in Film: Exploring Jewishness and Judaism in Contemporary Cinema and Stanley Kubrick: New York Jewish Intellectual.

• ChronologyPrefaceIntroduction Chapter One: "It's Probably Going to be the Hardest Film to Make": Stanley Kubrick, Arthur Schnitzler, and the Long Gestation of Eyes Wide ShutChapter Two: The Jewish Tailor: Writing the Screenplay of Eyes Wide ShutChapter Three: The Knishery: Pre-ProductionChapter Four: "They Absolutely Took Their Skin Off": The Production of Eyes Wide ShutChapter Five: "Mayhem": PostproductionChapter Six: "A Genuine Work of Honest Art": The Reception and Afterlife of Eyes Wide ShutChapter Seven: Non-Submersible Units: An analysis of Key Scenes in Eyes Wide Shut Epilogue: Eyes Wide Shut, Kubrick's Films, and the History of Cinema FilmographyNotesBibliography Index

The book is an immaculately researched account of the film's creation...