KUBRICK'S TOTAL CINEMA

Whatever people think about Kubrick's work, most would agree that there is something distinctive, even unique, about the films he ma de: a coolness, an intellectual clarity, a critical edginess, and finally an intractable ambiguity. In an attempt to isolate the Kub rick difference, this book treats Kubrick's films to a conceptual and formal analysis rather than a biographical and chronological s urvey.As Kubrick's cinema moves between the possibilities of human transcendence dramatized in 2001: A Space Odyssey and the dismal limitatio...[Read more]