2001 and Counting – Kubrick, Nietzsche, and Anthropology

Bruce Kapferer

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Prickly Paradigm Press, LLC
15 April 2014

Films, movies & cinema; Anthropology

Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey is widely recognized as a cult classic. Despite mixed critical reception, the dark and difficult movie mesmerized audiences at the time of its initial screening in 1968 and went on to become one the highest grossing films of the decade.

In 2001 and Counting, renowned anthropologist Bruce Kapferer revisits 2001: A Space Odyssey, making a compelling case for its continued cultural relevance. While the film's earliest audiences considered it to be a critical examination of European and American realities at the height of the Cold War, Kapferer shows that Kubrick's masterwork speaks equally well to concerns of the contemporary world, including the Iraq War, the 2008 financial crisis, and the material and political effects of neoliberalism. Kapferer explores Kubrick's central theme-the ever-changing relationship between humanity and technology-both with regard to current events and through the lens of Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra and the mythical concept of the eternal return.

A thought-provoking exploration of the cultural power of cinema, this volume by one of anthropology's most insightful and imaginative thinkers will appeal to anthropologists and cineastes alike.

By: Bruce Kapferer
Imprint: Prickly Paradigm Press, LLC
Country of Publication: United States [Currently unable to ship to USA: see Shipping Info]
Dimensions: Height: 124mm, Width: 180mm, Spine: 7mm
Weight: 102g
ISBN: 9780984201051
ISBN 10: 098420105X
Pages: 100
Publication Date: 15 April 2014
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Bruce Kapferer is professor in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Bergen, Norway, and honorary professor at University College London.

Reviews for 2001 and Counting – Kubrick, Nietzsche, and Anthropology

To measure myth - to contain it, even reduce it -with reference to a scale external to its own economy of expression is to cancel its mythical quality. . . . Myth, one might say, is Human, all too Human, in its refusal to submit to externally imposed scales of meaning. The marvel of Kapferer's book, then, lies in the manner in which it pursues this flow of meaning, giving anthropological expression to the subterranean links between the filmic, the mythic and the human. A book for free anthropological spirits. -- Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (6/3/2015 12:00:00 AM)