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David Mikics - Stanley Kubrick, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

Del i serien Jewish Lives

Stanley Kubrick

American Filmmaker

Av David Mikics

319 kr

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An engrossing biography of one of the most influential filmmakers in cinematic history"A cool, cerebral book about a cool, cerebral talent. . . . A brisk study of [Kubrick's] films, with enough of the life tucked in to add context as well as brightness and bite.”—Dwight Garner, New York Times"An engaging and well-researched primer to the work of a cinematic legend."—Library JournalKubrick grew up in the Bronx, a doctor’s son. From a young age he was consumed by photography, chess, and, above all else, movies. He was a self‑taught filmmaker and self‑proclaimed outsider, and his films exist in a unique world of their own outside the Hollywood mainstream. Kubrick’s Jewishness played a crucial role in his idea of himself as an outsider. Obsessed with rebellion against authority, war, and male violence, Kubrick was himself a calm, coolly masterful creator and a talkative, ever‑curious polymath immersed in friends and family.Drawing on interviews and new archival material, David Mikics for the first time explores the personal side of Kubrick’s films.
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  • Utgivningsdatum: 2020-08-18
  • Mått: 146 x 210 x 22 mm
  • Vikt: 408 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Serie: Jewish Lives
  • Antal sidor: 248
  • Förlag: Yale University Press
  • ISBN: 9780300224405
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David Mikics is Moores Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Houston, as well as a columnist for Tablet magazine. His most recent books are Bellow’s People and Slow Reading in a Hurried Age.

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"A cool, cerebral book about a cool, cerebral talent. . . . A brisk study of his films, with enough of the life tucked in to add context as well as brightness and bite."—Dwight Garner, New York Times“Mikics is a forensic film critic, and fascinating on what might have been in Kubrick’s career.”—Ed Potton, The Times“Some of [Kubrick’s] shots are reproduced in Mikics's book. They show that Kubrick's eye for clever compositions — left balances right, background speaks to foreground — was there from the off.”—Christopher Bray, Spectator“Not least of the pleasures afforded by this heroically concise biography of Stanley Kubrick, a man who neither embraced brevity nor encouraged it, is that it all but compels you to revisit his wonderful films.”—Brian Viner, Standpoint“[Mikics'] chapter on Eyes Wide Shut...is well worth reading, not least for its painful details about Kubrick’s terrible illness during the shoot and his friends’ view that ‘it killed him, really, making that movie’.”—Kevin Jackson, Literary ReviewCHOICE 2021 Outstanding Academic Title“A joy to read . . . elegant and penetrating as both biography and film criticism. Mikics offers such persuasive arguments for the individual movies that I found myself continually rethinking them.”—Molly Haskell, author of Steven Spielberg: A Life in Films

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