This book explores the diversity of Jewish cultures and ways of investigating them. It looks at how the individual terms "Jewish" and "culture" are defined, looking at perspectives from various disciplines. It explores how Jewish cultures are theorized, looking at themes regardi…
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From inception to reception and afterlife, Eyes Wide Shut traces the details of the origins and production of Stanley Kubrick's last film. It is based on extensive archival research and over twenty new interviews.
Twenty years since its release, Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut remains a complex, visually arresting film about domesticity, sexual disturbance, and dreams. It was on the director's mind for some 50 years before he finally put it into production. Using the Stanley Kubrick Arch…
From inception to reception and afterlife, Eyes Wide Shut traces the details of the origins and production of Stanley Kubrick's last film. It is based on extensive archival research and over twenty new interviews.
Stanley Kubrick is one of the most revered directors in cinema history. His 13 films, including classics such as Paths of Glory, 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, Barry Lyndon, and The Shining, attracted controversy, acclaim, a devoted cult following, and enormous criti…
"Stanley Kubrick: New York Jewish Intellectual locates Kubrick in the intellectual milieu of New York, considering how his origins and ethnicity impacted his work. Although Kubrick was not defined as a New York Intellectual, a member of that group of self-defined American writer…
"Stanley Kubrick: New York Jewish Intellectual locates Kubrick in the intellectual milieu of New York, considering how his origins and ethnicity impacted his work. Although Kubrick was not defined as a New York Intellectual, a member of that group of self-defined American writer…
Looking to killing -- The macho mensch -- Kubrick's double -- Banality and the bomb -- Kubrick and Kabbalah -- A mechanical mensch -- A spatial odyssey -- Interpretation of dreams -- Men as meat -- Coda "Stanley Kubrick: New York Jewish Intellectual locates Kubrick in the intel…
"Stanley Kubrick is generally acknowledged as one of the world's great directors. Yet few critics or scholars have considered how he emerged from a unique and vibrant cultural milieu: the New York Jewish intelligentsia. [This book] reexamines the director's work in context of hi…
"Stanley Kubrick: New York Jewish Intellectual locates Kubrick in the intellectual milieu of New York, considering how his origins and ethnicity impacted his work. Although Kubrick was not defined as a New York Intellectual, a member of that group of self-defined American writer…