Kubrick's Men

Richard Rambuss

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English

Fordham University Press
02 March 2021

Film, TV & Radio; Films, movies & cinema; Literary theory

A provocative re-reading of Stanley Kubrick's work and its focus on masculine desire

The work of Stanley Kubrick amounts to a sustained reflection on the male condition: past, present, and future. The persistent theme of his filmmaking is less violence or sex than it is the pressurized exertion of masculinity in unusual or extreme circumstances, where it may be taxed or exaggerated to various effects, tragic and comic-or metamorphosed, distorted, and even undone.

The stories that Kubrick's movies tell range from global nuclear politics to the unpredictable sexual dynamics of a marriage; from a day in the life of a New York City prizefighter preparing for a nighttime bout to the evolution of humankind. These male melodramas center on sociality and asociality. They feature male doubles, pairs, and rivals. They explore the romance of men and their machines, and men as machines. They figure intensely conflicted forms of male sexual desire. And they are also very much about male manners, style, taste, and art.

Examining the formal, thematic, and theoretical affiliations between Kubrick's three bodies of work-his photographs, his documentaries, and his feature films-Kubrick's Men offers new vantages on to the question of gender and sexuality, including the first extended treatment of homosexuality in Kubrick's male-oriented work.

By: Richard Rambuss
Imprint: Fordham University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
ISBN: 9780823293889
ISBN 10: 0823293882
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 02 March 2021
Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction: Kubrick and the Men’s Film | 1 1 Men’s Pictures | 13 Photography • Fight Films • Documentary 2 War Films: Napoleon, Fear and Desire, Paths of Glory, Dr. Strangelove, 2001: A Space Odyssey | 43 Maximal Kubrick • Generic War • What Becomes a Man: Decoration and Decorum • The Essence of Men, or Loving the Bomb • Homo Bellicus 3 Male Sexuality and Homosexuality I: Lolita, The Killing, Spartacus | 87 Two Normal Guys • Killing Time • At the Baths 4 Male Sexuality and Homosexuality II: Barry Lyndon, A Clockwork Orange, Eyes Wide Shut, The Shining | 122 Homosexuals in History • Resucked • Where the Rainbow Ends • Kubrick’s Apparitional Homosexuals 5 His Fundamental Core: Full Metal Jacket | 168 Head Like a Hole • Field-Fuck • “This Is for Fighting! This Is for Fun!” • “This Is Vietnam, the Movie” Coda: Visual Pleasure in Kubrick | 195 Acknowledgments | 199 Notes | 203 Index | 233

Richard Rambuss is Nicholas Brown Professor of Oratory and Belles Lettres and chair of the Department of English at Brown University. He is the author of Closet Devotions and Spenser's Secret Career and the editor of The English Poems of Richard Crashaw.

Reviews for Kubrick's Men

"A valuable resource for those interested in masculinity in US culture as well as scholars of Kubrick and film generally. High recommended.-- ""Choice"" Kubrick's Men is a bold, original, and richly textured study of one of the twentieth century's most important and influential filmmakers. With astonishing detail, Rambuss traces Kubrick's preoccupation with masculinities on the verge of coming undone. ---Robert J. Corber, author of Cold War Femme: Lesbianism, National Identity, and Hollywood Cinema I devoured these pages. With Kubrick's Men we discover a full and impressive display of Rambuss's multidimensional and natural erudition. This masterful blend of the learned and the popular brings Kubrick's male characters alive in novel, enlightening, and even dangerous ways. To read this work is to watch anew a master artist of the twentieth century.---Anthony Swofford, author of Jarhead"