Description
| Product ID: | 9780300224405 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | US |
| Series: | Jewish Lives |
| Title: | Stanley Kubrick |
| Subtitle: | American Filmmaker |
| Authors: | Author: David Mikics |
| Page Count: | 248 |
| Subjects: | Individual film directors, film-makers, Individual film directors, film-makers, Biography: arts and entertainment, Biography: religious and spiritual, Biography: arts & entertainment, Biography: religious & spiritual |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating An engrossing biography of one of the most influential filmmakers in cinematic history"A cool, cerebral book about a cool, cerebral talent. . . . A brisk study of [Kubrick's] films, with enough of the life tucked in to add context as well as brightness and bite.”—Dwight Garner, New York Times"An engaging and well-researched primer to the work of a cinematic legend."—Library Journal Kubrick grew up in the Bronx, a doctor’s son. From a young age he was consumed by photography, chess, and, above all else, movies. He was a self-taught filmmaker and self-proclaimed outsider, and his films exist in a unique world of their own outside the Hollywood mainstream. Kubrick’s Jewishness played a crucial role in his idea of himself as an outsider. Obsessed with rebellion against authority, war, and male violence, Kubrick was himself a calm, coolly masterful creator and a talkative, ever-curious polymath immersed in friends and family. Drawing on interviews and new archival material, David Mikics for the first time explores the personal side of Kubrick’s films. |
| Imprint Name: | Yale University Press |
| Publisher Name: | Yale University Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2020-10-13 |