Stanley Kubrick
Subtitle: New York Jewish intellectual
By: Nathan Abrams
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780813587103; 9780813587110
Subjects: Biography; Motion picture producers and directors
Description: "Stanley Kubrick is generally acknowledged as one of the world's great directors. Yet few critics or scholars have considered how he emerged from a unique and vibrant cultural milieu: the New York Jewish intelligentsia. [This book] reexamines the director's work in context of his ethnic and cultural origins. Focusing on several of Kubrick's key themes--including masculinity, ethical responsibility, and the nature of evil--it demonstrates how his films were in conversation with contemporary New York Jewish intellectuals who grappled with the same concerns.  At the same time, it explores Kubrick's fraught relationship with his Jewish identity and his reluctance to be pegged as an ethnic director, manifest in his removal of Jewish references and characters from stories he adapted."--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Looking to killing; title: The macho mensch; title: Kubrick's double; title: Banality and the bomb; title: Kubrick and Kabbalah; title: A mechanical mensch; title: A spatial odyssey; title: Dream intepretation; title: Men as meat; title: Kubrick's Coda.