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  • The Stanley Kubrick Archives (Bibliotheca Universalis)

    • ASIN: 3836555824
    • ISBN: 3836555824
    • Brand: Taschen
    • Manufacturer: TASCHEN

    In 1968, when Stanley Kubrick was asked to comment on the metaphysical significance of 2001: A Space Odyssey, he replied: “It’s not a message I ever intended to convey in words. 2001 is a nonverbal experience… I tried to create a visual experience, one that directly penetrates the subconscious with an emotional and philosophic content.”Now ... [Read More]

  • Stanley Kubrick: A Biography

    • ASIN: 0306809060
    • ISBN: 0306809060
    • Manufacturer: Da Capo Press

    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--t... [Read More]

  • The Making of Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey'

    • UPC: 884745445056
    • ASIN: 3836559544
    • ISBN: 3836559544
    • Brand: Bizony Piers
    • Manufacturer: TASCHEN

    Get closer than ever to the movie that changed the movies. This behind-the-scenes spectacular of 2001: A Space Odyssey sheds light on the lead actors, senior production designers, special-effects experts and masterminds of Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke, who together revolutionized science fiction and the art of cinema.Previously available as... [Read More]

  • Stanley Kubrick and Me: Thirty Years at His Side

    • ASIN: 1628726695
    • ISBN: 1628726695
    • Brand: Arcade
    • Manufacturer: Arcade

    This intimate portrait by his former personal assistant and confidante reveals the man behind the legendary filmmaker—for the first time.Stanley Kubrick, the director of a string of timeless movies from Lolita and Dr. Strangelove to A Clockwork Orange, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Full Metal Jacket, and others, has always been depicted by the media as ... [Read More]

  • Space Odyssey: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke, and the Making of a Masterpiece

    • ASIN: B074ZP9S44
    • Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster

    The definitive story of the making of 2001: A Space Odyssey, acclaimed today as one of the greatest films ever made, and of director Stanley Kubrick and writer Arthur C. Clarke—“a tremendous explication of a tremendous film….Breathtaking” (The Washington Post).Fifty years ago a strikingly original film had its premiere. Still acclaimed as o... [Read More]

  • Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures

    • ASIN: 0821228153
    • ISBN: 0821228153
    • Brand: Brand: Bulfinch
    • Manufacturer: Bulfinch

    The wife of the Hollywood genius shares an intimate portrait of the great director through his favorite medium--photographs--offering more than two hundred images from his first film through his posthumously completed project, A.I.. 15,000 first printing.

  • Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-and-Rock 'N' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood

    • ASIN: 0684857081
    • ISBN: 0684857081
    • Brand: Biskind, Peter
    • Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster

    When the low-budget biker movie Easy Rider shocked Hollywood with its success in 1969, a new Hollywood era was born. This was an age when talented young filmmakers such as Scorsese, Coppola, and Spielberg, along with a new breed of actors, including De Niro, Pacino, and Nicholson, became the powerful figures who would make such modern classics as T... [Read More]

  • The Encyclopedia of Stanley Kubrick (Library of Great Filmmakers)

    • ASIN: 0816043892
    • ISBN: 0816043892
    • Brand: Brand: Checkmark Books
    • Manufacturer: Checkmark Books

    Surveys the director's life and career with information on his films, key people in his life, technical information, themes, locations, and film theory.

  • Kubrick

    • ASIN: 0802138187
    • ISBN: 0802138187
    • Brand: Grove Atlantic
    • Manufacturer: Grove Press

    Kubrick is Michael Herr's memoir of his nearly twenty-year friendship and collaboration with Stanley Kubrick, one of the greatest filmmakers of all time and the creator of such classics as Dr. Strangelove, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and A Clockwork Orange. From their first meeting at an advance screening of The Shining in 1980, Kubrick and Herr began a... [Read More]

  • Stanley Kubrick, Director: A Visual Analysis

    • ASIN: 0393321193
    • ISBN: 0393321193
    • Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company

    Alexander Walker's Stanley Kubrick, Director is the only book ever written with Kubrick's cooperation. This new edition, revised and expanded to discuss all of Kubrick's films―including Eyes Wide Shut―again received the approval of the reclusive director, who before his death allowed the use of illustrations taken directly from his films' frame... [Read More]

  • The Spartacus War

    • ASIN: 1416532064
    • ISBN: 1416532064
    • Brand: Simon & Schuster
    • Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster

    An authoritative account from an expert author: The Spartacus War is the first popular history of the revolt in English. A leading authority on classical military history, Barry Strauss has used recent archaeological discoveries, ancient documents, and on-site investigations to create the most accurate and detailed account of the Spartacus rebellio... [Read More]

  • The Philosophy of Stanley Kubrick (Philosophy Of Popular Culture)

    • ASIN: 081312445X
    • ISBN: 081312445X
    • Brand: Brand: The University Press of Kentucky
    • Manufacturer: University Press of Kentucky

    In the course of fifty years, director Stanley Kubrick produced some of the most haunting and indelible images on film. His films touch on a wide range of topics rife with questions about human life, behavior, and emotions: love and sex, war, crime, madness, social conditioning, and technology. Within this great variety of subject matter, Kubrick e... [Read More]

  • Bloomberg by Bloomberg

    • ASIN: 0471208884
    • ISBN: 0471208884
    • Manufacturer: Wiley

  • Hollywood's Most Influential Directors: The Lives and Legacies of Alfred Hitchcock, Orson Welles, and Stanley Kubrick

    • ASIN: B01MSXTL4K
    • Manufacturer: Charles River Editors

    *Includes pictures*Includes the directors' quotes about their careers*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading*Includes a table of contentsIn the opening pages of his seminal book-length study of Alfred Hitchcock, Hitchcock’s Films (1965), Robin Wood famously asked, “Why Should We Take Hitchcock Seriously?” Wood then p... [Read More]

  • Full Metal Jacket Diary

    • ASIN: 1590710479
    • ISBN: 1590710479
    • Manufacturer: Rugged Land

    Despite the infamous reputation of the enigmatic Stanley Kubrick, Matthew Modine couldn’t refuse his offer. Faced with the prospects of a career-defining role and mentorship by a cinematic great, the 24-year-old Hollywood actor arrived in London armed with a large-format Roliflex camera–inspired by Kubrick’s early career as a Look photographe... [Read More]

  • Kubrick, New and Expanded Edition: Inside a Film Artist's Maze

    • ASIN: 0253213908
    • ISBN: 0253213908
    • Manufacturer: Indiana University Press

    Stanley Kubrick ranks among the most important American film makers of his generation, but his work is often misunderstood because it is widely diverse in subject matter and seems to lack thematic and tonal consistency. Thomas Nelson's perceptive and comprehensive study of Kubrick rescues him from the hostility of auteurist critics and discovers th... [Read More]

  • I Am Spartacus!: Making a Film, Breaking the Blacklist

    • ASIN: B0083JBWTI
    • Manufacturer: Open Road Media

    A “lively” memoir by the Hollywood legend about the making of Spartacus, with a foreword by George Clooney (Los Angeles Times).  One of the world’s most iconic movie stars, Kirk Douglas has distinguished himself as a producer, philanthropist, and author of ten works of fiction and memoir. Now, more than fifty years after the release of his... [Read More]

  • Citizen Tom Paine

    • ASIN: B006GKVYAI
    • Manufacturer: Open Road Media

    The New York Times bestseller that’s “so glowingly human a picture of Tom Paine and America in the revolutionary days” (The New York Herald).   Thomas Paine’s voice rang in the ears of eighteenth-century revolutionaries from America to France to England. He was friend to luminaries such as Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin, and William Wordsw... [Read More]

  • The man from New York;: John Quinn and his friends

    • ASIN: B0006BW646
    • ISBN: 0006829724
    • Manufacturer: Oxford University Press

    First edition. With 35 illustrations. Biography of this American book collector and art collector. Ex library copy with markings. xviii, 708 pages. cloth, dust jacket.. thick 8vo..

  • James Joyce's Ulysses;: Critical essays,

    • ASIN: 0520024443
    • ISBN: 0520024443
    • Manufacturer: University of California Press

    This book contains eighteen original essays by leading Joyce scholars on the eighteen separate chapters of Ulysses. It attempts to explore the richness of Joyce's extraordinary novel more fully than could be done by any single scholar. Joyce's habit of using, when writing each chapter in Ulysses, a particular style, tone, point of view, and narrati... [Read More]

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