A clockwork orange
By: Peter Kramer
Series: Controversies
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780230302129
Subjects: Clockwork orange (Motion picture); PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / Guides & Reviews; PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / General; PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism
Description: "Stanley Kubrick's futuristic juvenile delinquency movie A Clockwork Orange (1971) is an adaptation of Anthony Burgess' 1962 novel of the same title. Film and novel tell the story of an extremely violent teenager who allows himself to be subjected to aversion therapy (making him unable to indulge his violent and sexual impulses) so as to get out of prison; he then becomes the target of violent attacks and political manipulation which in turn culminate in the removal of his psychological conditioning.  Drawing on new research in the Stanley Kubrick Archive at the University of the Arts London, Krämer's study explores the production, marketing and reception as well as the themes and style of A Clockwork Orange against the backdrop of Kubrick's previous work and of wider developments in cinema, culture and society from the 1950s to the early 1970s"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Introduction; title: Synopsis; title: PART 1: Production History; title: PART 2: Marketing and Reception I: The US Controversy; title: PART 3: Marketing and Reception II: The UK Controversy; title: PART4: Key Themes and Ideas; title: PART 5: Key Scene Analysis; title: PART 6: The Legacy of A Clockwork Orange.