After Kubrick

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
After Kubrick
After Kubrick
Product Specifications
  • Title: After Kubrick
  • Author: After Kubrick
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
  • Binding: Paperback / softback
  • Film TV & radio
  • No. of pages: 320
  • Dimensions (approx. mm): 151 x 229 x 22

Product Description

Taking at its starting point the idea that Kubrick's cinema has constituted an intellectual cerebral and philosophical maze in which many filmmakers (as well as thinkers and a substantial fringe of the general public) have gotten lost at one point or another this collection looks at the legacy of Kubrick's films in the 21st century.

The main avenues investigated are as follows: a look at Kubrick's influence on his most illustrious followers (Paul Thomas Anderson the Coen Brothers Christopher Nolan Ridley Scott and Lars von Trier to name a few); Kubrick in critical reception; Kubrick in stylistic (camera movements set designs music) thematic (artificial intelligence new frontiers- large and small) aesthetic (the question of genre pastiche stereoscopy) and political terms (paranoia democracy and secret societies conspiracy theories).

The contributions coalesce around the concept of a Kubrickian substrate rich and complex which permeates our Western cultural landscape very much to this day informing and sometimes announcing/reflecting it in twisted ways 21 years after the director's death.