Eyes Wide Shut

Nathan Abrams has written widely and extensively on Kubrick (as well as film in general). Abrams’ 2018 book, Stanley Kubrick: Jewish Intellectual, examines the contentious issue of Kubrick's ethnicity and how it both shaped and is reflected in his films. Based on a detailed working knowledge of the Kubrick Archive and other archives. He collaborated with Robert Kolker on Eyes Wide Shut: Stanley Kubrick and the Making of His Final Film (2019), the most comprehensive history of that film to date, based on extensive research, archival material, and interviews with the leading participants. It was chosen as one of the ten best film books of 2019 by the British Film Institute’s journal, Sight and Sound. He edited the Bloomsbury Companion to Stanley Kubrick (2021) with IQ Hunter and is currently writing a biography of Kubrick to be published by Faber & Faber in 2024. He has also been responsible for organising various Kubrick events, bringing together scholars, fans, as well as those who worked on the films and/or with Kubrick, including '2001: Beyond 50' (2018), 'Stanley Kubrick, Life and Legacy' (2019), and 'Behind Eyes Wide Shut' (2019). He is also a founding member of the Kubrick Studies Network, which has some 70 subscribers worldwide and is growing.Georgina Orgill is Senior Archivist at The Stanley Kubrick Archive. She has previously contributed to the Bloomsbury Companion to Stanley Kubrick (2021), co-edited a volume on A Clockwork Orange, and written on archival cataloguing and access for the teaching and learning journal SPARK (2019).

• List of illustrationsNotes on contributorsAcknowledgementsIntroduction, Nathan Abrams and Georgina OrgillPART ONE: PRODUCTION‘Infidelity troubled him deeply’: A journey to the root of Eyes Wide Shut, Filippo UlivieriA Choreographic Liaison: Collaborating with Stanley Kubrick on the Masked Ball for Eyes Wide Shut, Yolande SnaithStanley Kubrick’s last film and the question of authorship, Manca PerkoPART TWO: THE FILM‘If You Men Only Knew’: Stanley Kubrick’s Failed Attempt to Explore Female Sexuality in Eyes Wide Shut, Catriona M. McAvoy and Karen A. RitzenhoffWhat about the daughters? Parenthood in Eyes Wide Shut, Joy McEntee‘Lucky to Be Alive’: Clockwork Models and the Logic of the Inanimate in Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut, Ohad LandesmanEyes Re-opened: Elucidation and Enlightenment Through Music in Eyes Wide Shut, Marie BennettPART THREE: RECEPTIONFraming Eye Wide Shut as a Late-90s ‘Quality’ Blockbuster: Authorship and Stardom in Kubrick’s Final Film, Eddie FalveyA cloaked and masked film: some things Eyes Wide Shut may (really) be about, Jeremi SzaniawskiEyes Wide Shut: A Cult Film?, Matt MeliaAfterword, Robert P. KolkerIndex

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