num_pages: 248
description: An engrossing biography of one of the most influential filmmakers in cinematic historyA 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 TimesAn engaging and well-researched primer to the work of a cinematic legend. Library JournalKubrick grew up in the Bronx a doctors son. From a young age he was consumed by photography chess and above all else movies. He was a selftaught filmmaker and selfproclaimed outsider and his films exist in a unique world of their own outside the Hollywood mainstream. Kubricks 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 evercurious polymath immersed in friends and family. Drawing on interviews and new archival material David Mikics for the first time explores the personal side of Kubricks films.
language: English
title: Stanley Kubrick: American Filmmaker
publisher: Yale University Press