Bibliograph

Kubrick, an odyssey, Robert P. Kolker and Nathan Abrams

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Kubrick, an odyssey, Robert P. Kolker and Nathan Abrams

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 603-626) and index

resource.biographical

individual biography

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Kubrick

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

11418719950

Responsibility statement

Robert P. Kolker and Nathan Abrams

Sub title

an odyssey

Summary

This immersive biography of the legendary director of films such as 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Shining and A Clockwork Orange is based on new research and interviews with family members and those who worked with him

Table Of Contents

A relatively normal life' -- 'From oddball to intriguing misfit' 1928-1945 -- 'Stan Kubrick, photo, 1414 Shakespeare Ave., NYC' 1945-1949 -- 'As if we were doing War and Peace' 1949-1951 -- 'A bumbling amateur film exercise' 1951-1953 -- 'Baby, nobody's going to get anything out of this movie but me' 1953-1955 -- 'The gangster and the artist' 1955-1956 -- 'He provides a very necessary threat' 1956 -- 'Stanley, I don't think this picture will ever make a nickel, but we have to make it' 1957-1958 -- 'Stanley Hubris' 1958-1959 -- 'Now I can make a story that I have a crush on' 1959-1961 -- 'Intrigued by the threat of nuclear war' 1961-1962 -- 'I'm a bit more of a science-fiction addict than you might have suspected' 1963-1964 -- 'Science fiction? You've got to be kidding' 1964-1965 -- 'Mr Cool' 1965-1968 -- 'Americans don't like films where people write with feathers' 1968-1970 -- 'A terrible man. Just shocking' 1970-1972 -- 'I'm not a Franz Kafka, sitting alone and suffering' 1972-1974 -- 'He is never far wrong about anything' 1974-1975 -- 'I've always liked fairy tales and myths' 1976-1977 -- 'He was an artist, with the inner life of one, dreaming about his work' 1977-1978 -- 'How can we do it better than it's ever been done before?' 1978-1980 -- 'Anxiously awaiting getting an idea' 1980-1982 -- 'A terse spitball of a book, fine and real and terrifying' 1982-1984 -- 'As daunting an inscrutible as a monolith' 1984-1987 -- 'I might just tinker with it a little. . .' 1988-1991 -- 'Routines of evasive deception' 1991-1993 -- 'His creative process and mind were not sufficiently aligned' 1994-1995 -- 'Didn't he wind up. . .in some place with a very bad climate?' 1995-1996 -- 'It's my best film ever' 1996-1999 -- 'The guy who was my pal' March-December 1999

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