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Kubrick : an odyssey  Cover Image Book Book

Kubrick : an odyssey

Kolker, Robert Phillip (author.). Abrams, Nathan, (author.).

Summary:

This immersive biography of the legendary director of films such as 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Shining and A Clockwork Orange is based on new research and interviews with family members and those who worked with him.

Contents:

A relatively normal life'
'From oddball to intriguing misfit' 1928-1945
'Stan Kubrick, photo, 1414 Shakespeare Ave., NYC' 1945-1949
'As if we were doing War and Peace' 1949-1951
'A bumbling amateur film exercise' 1951-1953
'Baby, nobody's going to get anything out of this movie but me' 1953-1955
'The gangster and the artist' 1955-1956
'He provides a very necessary threat' 1956
'Stanley, I don't think this picture will ever make a nickel, but we have to make it' 1957-1958
'Stanley Hubris' 1958-1959
'Now I can make a story that I have a crush on' 1959-1961
'Intrigued by the threat of nuclear war' 1961-1962
'I'm a bit more of a science-fiction addict than you might have suspected' 1963-1964
'Science fiction? You've got to be kidding' 1964-1965
'Mr Cool' 1965-1968
'Americans don't like films where people write with feathers' 1968-1970
'A terrible man. Just shocking' 1970-1972
'I'm not a Franz Kafka, sitting alone and suffering' 1972-1974
'He is never far wrong about anything' 1974-1975
'I've always liked fairy tales and myths' 1976-1977
'He was an artist, with the inner life of one, dreaming about his work' 1977-1978
'How can we do it better than it's ever been done before?' 1978-1980
'Anxiously awaiting getting an idea' 1980-1982
'A terse spitball of a book, fine and real and terrifying' 1982-1984
'As daunting an inscrutible as a monolith' 1984-1987
'I might just tinker with it a little. . .' 1988-1991
'Routines of evasive deception' 1991-1993
'His creative process and mind were not sufficiently aligned' 1994-1995
'Didn't he wind up. . .in some place with a very bad climate?' 1995-1996
'It's my best film ever' 1996-1999
'The guy who was my pal' March-December 1999.

Item details

  • ISBN: 1639366245
  • ISBN: 9781639366248
  • Physical Description: 649 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
    print
  • Edition: First Pegasus Books cloth edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Pegasus Books, 2024.
  • Distributor: [New York] : Distributed by Simon & Schuster

Contents / Notes

Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 603-626) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
A relatively normal life'
'From oddball to intriguing misfit' 1928-1945
'Stan Kubrick, photo, 1414 Shakespeare Ave., NYC' 1945-1949
'As if we were doing War and Peace' 1949-1951
'A bumbling amateur film exercise' 1951-1953
'Baby, nobody's going to get anything out of this movie but me' 1953-1955
'The gangster and the artist' 1955-1956
'He provides a very necessary threat' 1956
'Stanley, I don't think this picture will ever make a nickel, but we have to make it' 1957-1958
'Stanley Hubris' 1958-1959
'Now I can make a story that I have a crush on' 1959-1961
'Intrigued by the threat of nuclear war' 1961-1962
'I'm a bit more of a science-fiction addict than you might have suspected' 1963-1964
'Science fiction? You've got to be kidding' 1964-1965
'Mr Cool' 1965-1968
'Americans don't like films where people write with feathers' 1968-1970
'A terrible man. Just shocking' 1970-1972
'I'm not a Franz Kafka, sitting alone and suffering' 1972-1974
'He is never far wrong about anything' 1974-1975
'I've always liked fairy tales and myths' 1976-1977
'He was an artist, with the inner life of one, dreaming about his work' 1977-1978
'How can we do it better than it's ever been done before?' 1978-1980
'Anxiously awaiting getting an idea' 1980-1982
'A terse spitball of a book, fine and real and terrifying' 1982-1984
'As daunting an inscrutible as a monolith' 1984-1987
'I might just tinker with it a little. . .' 1988-1991
'Routines of evasive deception' 1991-1993
'His creative process and mind were not sufficiently aligned' 1994-1995
'Didn't he wind up. . .in some place with a very bad climate?' 1995-1996
'It's my best film ever' 1996-1999
'The guy who was my pal' March-December 1999.
Subject: Kubrick, Stanley
Motion picture producers and directors United States Biography
Producteurs et réalisateurs de cinéma États-Unis Biographies
Genre: Biographies.
Biographies.
Biography.

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  • 1 out of 1 copy are currently available at Peachtree City Library.

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