Uncanny in Stanley Kubrick's Cinema

2001: A Space Odyssey – Barry Lyndon – The Shining – Eyes Wide Shut

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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This study examines the presence of the Freudian psychoanalytic concept of the uncanny in a selection of films by Stanley Kubrick. Through a close analysis of 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), Barry Lyndon (1975), The Shining (1980) and Eyes Wide Shut (1999), the book explores how the the idea of the uncanny found its way into the director’s work, producing a radical and fascinating unsettling of our subjectivity as spectators and film readers, and asking important questions about our relation to images and the audiovisual.The author argues that Kubrick’s cinema, one of the most remarkable examples of artistic expression in the twentieth century, makes the uncanny a concept capable of expressing the dynamic and vital nature of the unconscious in the context of modernism and beyond. In so doing, he investigates the boundaries and the rich dialogue between cinema, psychoanalysis, aesthetics and modernism.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-10-09
Mått163 x 239 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieStanley Kubrick Studies
Antal sidor320
FörlagLiverpool University Press
ISBN9781805960164

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IntroductionThe Uncanny: A Hermeneutic Turning Point for the Humanities and the AestheticsThe Uncanny in Psychoanalytic TheoryThe Uncanny and the Discourse of the ArtsDynamic Fictions of the MindThe Uncanny, Psychoanalysis, and Psychoanalytic Film TheoryKubrick’s Cinema: A Modernist Configuration of the UncannyThe Magic of the Modernist EyeAnalytic of Chaos2001: A Space OdysseyExploring the UnknownThe New and the AncientBeyond Subjective VisionBarry LyndonA Plural Text: Game and HistoryEvoking Ghosts Through CinemaWhere the Paths CrossThe ShiningQuestions of SpectralityIn the Garden of Forking Paths“Something Tremendous, Something Elemental”: The Archive Fever and SpectralityLosing Control or Leaving the Margins of Established MeaningLabyrinths of MeaningSome Conclusions on an Open TextEyes Wide ShutA Modernist CrossroadsA Tale of Day and Night: The Unconscious at the End of the Twentieth CenturyImages to Refound the GazeConclusion