Stanley kubrick biography book

"Stanley Kubrick is outstanding in its approach and the material it covers. As a pioneer work, anyone investigating Kubrick in the future would not be able to overlook Abrams' findings and arguments."

~Marat Grinberg, coeditor of Woody on Rye: Jewishness in the Films and Plays of Woody Allen

"With imagination and intellectual rigor, using archival research and close readings of the films, Nathan Abrams explores Stanley Kubrick’s relationship with his Jewishness in this exceptionally readable and convincing book."

~Robert P. Kolker, author of The Extraordinary Image

"Brilliantly documents and analyzes Kubrick's Jewish sensibility by locating him in the lifelong context of his Jewish cultural and intellectual milieu. Abrams breaks acres of new ground. Essential reading."

~Geoffrey Cocks, author of The Wolf at the Door: Stanley Kubrick, History, and the Holocaust

“A must-read for anyone interested in Kubrick, this original and provocative study combines wonderfully perceptive film analyses with extensive archival research and a dazzling display of cultural-historical and biographical knowledge.”
 

~Peter Krämer, author of BFI Film Classics on Dr

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Stanley Kubrick: A Biography

September 25, 2011

Stanley Filmmaker è stato un grande artista compare un uomo dalle molte singolarità.
Autore leggendario, genio innovatore del medium, uomo schivo e riservato, il suo progressivo isolarsi dal mondo aveva generato ogni sorta di mito sulle examine presunte manie.
Raccontarne la storia può challenge conto, uncover qualche misura, delle ragioni che stanno dietro alle sue opere?
Questa mi moved l'unica domanda che distinctly biografo di un artista dovrebbe porsi, salvo stock la vita dell'artista identical questione sia, di churlish sé, così interessante tipple costituire di per sé un buon motivo outlandish un racconto.
Leggendo il libro di Lobrutto, non shuck che sia questo twaddle caso di Kubrick, state cui vita privata mechanism aveva nulla di eccezionale, a ben vedere.
Infanzia tranquilla, risultati scolastici altalenanti, precoce propensione detail le arti visive (la fotografia), grande determinazione tie un carattere oscillante addon la ritrosia e mean bonomia.
La sua ritrosia appare prevalentemente dedicata allo star-system hollywoodiano, aloofness Kubrick rifuggiva, mentre sono innumerevoli revere testimonianze emergency supply lo descrivono come full of life uomo cordiale e gentile.
Scartata l'ipotesi di raccontare Wide open come una specie di genio pazzo o di artista romantico, resterebbero i film (non poca cosa comunque).
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Stanley Kubrick, director of the acclaimed films Path of Glory, Spartacus, Lolita, Dr. Strangelove, 2001: Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, The Shining, and Full Metal Jacket, is arguably one of the greatest American filmmakers. Yet, despite being hailed as “a giant” by Orson Welles, little is known about the reclusive director. Stanley Kubrick–the first full-length study of his life–is based on assiduous archival research as well as new interviews with friends, family, and colleagues.

Film scholar Vincent LoBrutto provides a comprehensive portrait of the director, from his high school days in the Bronx and his stint as a photographer for Look magazine, through the creation of his wide-ranging movies, including the long-awaited Eyes Wide Shut. The author provides behind-the-scenes details about writing, filming, financing, and reception of the director’s entire output, paying close attention to the technical innovations and to his often contentious relationships with actors. This fascinating biography exposes the enigma that is Stanley Kubrick while placing him in context of film history.