Eyes Wide Shut: Stanley Kubrick and the Making of His Final Film

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Robert P. Kolker (Professor Emeritus, Professor Emeritus, University of Maryland) Nathan Abrams (Professor of Film Studies, Professor of Film Studies, Bangor University)

Eyes Wide Shut

Stanley Kubrick and the Making of His Final Film

Robert P. Kolker (Professor Emeritus, Professor Emeritus, University of Maryland), Nathan Abrams (Professor of Film Studies, Professor of Film Studies, Bangor University)

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Oxford University Press
19 June 2019

Film, TV & Radio; Film theory & criticism; Individual film directors, film-makers; Film movie production: technical skills

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 Archive at the University of the Arts, London, and interviews with participants in the production, the authors create an archeology of the film that traces the progress of the film from its origins to its completion, reception, and afterlife. The book is also an appreciation of this enigmatic work and its equally enigmatic creator.

By: Robert P. Kolker (Professor Emeritus Professor Emeritus University of Maryland), Nathan Abrams (Professor of Film Studies, Professor of Film Studies, Bangor University)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 155mm, Width: 231mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 354g
ISBN: 9780190678036
ISBN 10: 0190678038
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 19 June 2019
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

"Chronology Preface Introduction Chapter One: ""It's Probably Going to be the Hardest Film to Make"": Stanley Kubrick, Arthur Schnitzler, and the Long Gestation of Eyes Wide Shut Chapter Two: The Jewish Tailor: Writing the Screenplay of Eyes Wide Shut Chapter Three: The Knishery: Pre-Production Chapter Four: ""They Absolutely Took Their Skin Off"": The Production of Eyes Wide Shut Chapter Five: ""Mayhem"": Postproduction Chapter Six: ""A Genuine Work of Honest Art"": The Reception and Afterlife of Eyes Wide Shut Chapter Seven: Non-Submersible Units: An analysis of Key Scenes in Eyes Wide Shut Epilogue: Eyes Wide Shut, Kubrick's Films, and the History of Cinema Filmography Notes Bibliography Index"

Robert P. Kolker, Professor Emeritus, University of Maryland, taught cinema studies for almost 50 years. He is author of A Cinema of Loneliness, The Extraordinary Image: Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick and the Reimagining of Cinema , and editor of 2001: A Space Odyssey: New Essays and The Oxford Handbook of Film and Media Studies. Nathan Abrams is Professor in Film at Bangor University in Wales. He is founding co-editor of Jewish Film and New Media: An International Journal, as well as the author of The New Jew in Film: Exploring Jewishness and Judaism in Contemporary Cinema and Stanley Kubrick: New York Jewish Intellectual.

Reviews for Eyes Wide Shut: Stanley Kubrick and the Making of His Final Film

Through obsessive research and details within details worthy of the man they chronicle in Eyes Wide Shut: Stanley Kubrick and the Making of his Final Film, film scholars Robert P. Kolker and Nathan Abrams prove decidedly that the last movie of a great film director not only sums up their career but defines and illuminates it with clarity. This is a must-read for admirers of Stanley Kubrick and his work and the cinema itself. * Vincent LoBrutto, author of Stanley Kubrick: A Biography * Two leading Kubrick scholars have joined forces for this hugely impressive study of the filmmaker's final masterpiece. Examining the film from every conceivable angle, they offer unique insights into its form and themes - and also, more broadly, into Kubrick's working methods, his personality and his place in 20th century culture. * Peter Kramer, author of BFI Film Classics on Dr. Strangelove and 2001: A Space Odyssey, and co-editor of Stanley Kubrick: New Perspectives * I'm not sure if it will spur Eyes Wide Shut haters to reevaluate the film, but Eyes Wide Shut: Stanley Kubrick and the Making of His Final Film will give them some fresh insight into the seemingly impenetrable mind of Stanley Kubrick. * Mike Segretto, Psychobabble *