After Kubrick

A Filmmaker’s Legacy

Jeremi Szaniawski

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN:
  9781501383557
• eBook ISBN:
  9781501347665
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: Film & Video

Taking at its starting point the idea that Kubrick's cinema has constituted an intellectual, cerebral, and philosophical maze in which many filmmakers (as well as thinkers and a substantial fringe of the general public) have gotten lost at one point or another, this collection looks at the legacy of Kubrick's films in the 21st century.

The main avenues investigated are as follows: a look at Kubrick's influence on his most illustrious followers (Paul Thomas Anderson, the Coen Brothers, Christopher Nolan, Ridley Scott, and Lars von Trier, to name a few); Kubrick in critical reception; Kubrick in stylistic (camera movements, set designs, music), thematic (artificial intelligence, new frontiers- large and small), aesthetic (the question of genre, pastiche, stereoscopy) and political terms (paranoia, democracy and secret societies, conspiracy theories).

The contributions coalesce around the concept of a Kubrickian substrate, rich and complex, which permeates our Western cultural landscape very much to this day, informing and sometimes announcing/reflecting it in twisted ways, 21 years after the director's death.

Table of contents

• Title page
• Copyright page
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction:1999–2019, and Beyond: A Post-Kubrickian Odyssey
• Chapter 1: Stanley Kubrick’s Prototypes: The Author as World-Maker
• Chapter 2 “Kubrick’s Cube”: Stanley Kubrick, Judaism, and His Jewish Heirs
• Chapter 3 Kubrick’s Inheritors: Aesthetics, Independence, and Philosophy in the Films of Joel and Ethan
• Chapter 4 Blurring the Lines between Victim and Perpetrator: Yorgos Lanthimos and the Legacy of Stanley Kubrick
• Chapter 5 Glimpses of Eternity: Stanley Kubrick’s Time Machines
• Chapter 6 Kubrickian Dread: Echoes of 2001: A Space Odyssey and The Shining in Works by Jonathan Glazer, Paul Thomas Anderson, and David Lynch
• Chapter 7 Excessive and Incomplete: Kubrick’s Turing
• Chapter 8 Thus Spoke Kubrick: “Guide Pieces,” Modes of Citation and the Rise of the Temp Track
• Chapter 9 Fade to Crude: Petro-Horror and Kubrick’s The Shining
• Chapter 10 The Anxiety of Interpretation: The Shining, Room 237 and Film Criticism
• Chapter 11 Political Opacity in the Films of Stanley Kubrick
• Chapter 12 Coping with the Unknown in 2001: A Space Odyssey and Interstellar
• Chapter 13 Biopolitical Abjection and Sexuation: Stanley Kubrick’s Political Films
• Chapter 14 Kubrick at the Museum: Post-Cinematic Conditions, Limitations, and Possibilities
• Chapter 15 The Dead Kitten: Sacrifice in Barry Lyndon
• Appendix Interview with Gaspar Noé