Gender, Power, and Identity in The Films of Stanley Kubrick

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Synopsis

This volume features a set of thought-provoking and long overdue approaches to situating Stanley Kubrick’s films in contemporary debates around gender, race, and age – with a focus on women’s representations.
Offering new historical and critical perspectives on Kubrick’s cinema, the book asks how his work should be viewed bearing in mind issues of gender equality, sexual harassment, and abuse. The authors tackle issues such as Kubrick’s at times questionable relationships with his actresses and former wives, the dynamics of power, misogyny and miscegenation in his films, and auteur ‘apologism’, among others. The selection delineates these complex contours of Kubrick’s work by drawing on archival sources, engaging in close readings of specific films, and exploring Kubrick through unorthodox venture points.
With an interdisciplinary scope and social justice-centered focus, this book offers new perspectives on a well-established area of study. It will appeal to scholars and upper-level students of film studies, media studies, gender studies, and visual culture, as well as to fans of the director interested in revisiting his work with a new perspective.

Book details

Series:
Routledge Advances in Film Studies
Author:
Karen A. Ritzenhoff, Dijana Metli 263, , Jeremi Szaniawski
ISBN:
9781000771992
Related ISBNs:
9781003208174, 9781032072227, 9781032076591
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
Pages:
334
Reading age:
Not specified
Includes images:
No
Date of addition:
2022-10-20
Usage restrictions:
Copyright
Copyright date:
2023
Copyright by:
N/A 
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Categories:
Art and Architecture, Entertainment, History, Nonfiction, Social Studies