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    "I would not think of quarreling with your interpretation nor offering any other‚ as I have found it always the best policy to allow the film to speak for itself." (Stanley Kubrick) As one of the most widely acclaimed and influential directors of the postwar era‚ Stanley Kubrick enjoyed a reputation and a standing unique among the filmmakers of his day. He had a brilliant career with relatively few films. An outsider‚ he worked beyond the confines of Hollywood‚ which he disliked‚ maintaining

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    quality thus exerting a personal creative vision and interjecting it into the his or her films. Kubrick made his first film in 1953 and has continued to make films till his death shortly after the film Eyes Wide Shut in 1999. With a film career spanning over four decades‚ he crafted consistent themes‚ and honed a highly personalized style which was woven into the films he made. Stanley Kubrick was a very stylistic film maker and paid great attention to detail in every aspect of his movies. One

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    A View To The Work of Director Stanley Kubrick Only few Hollywood directors can distinguish themselves for bridging the gap of making purely entertaining films to creating pieces of art. Stanley Kubrick has placed himself in history as a true artist of the seventh art. Stanley Kubrick is known for reinventing himself in every film he makes. However‚ as every other artist‚ there are different things that connect every creation he made. His use of camera‚ photography‚ colors and extreme detailing

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    THE SHINING The key to a great movie is using cinematography to control the mood and tone of a piece in order to affect the viewers’ feelings. In Stanley Kubrick’s "The Shining"‚ the cinematographer manipulated the lighting to create a certain mood and cast of light onto the scenes. Since lighting is the key to cinematography‚ it can have a major impact on a films narrative. During the scene of The Shining‚ entitled "Great Party‚ Isn’t It?" the cinematographer used light to put emphasis

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    KUBRICK CONTRA NIHILISM: A CLOCKWORK ORANGE Much critical ink has been spilled over the question of whether the world-view of archetypal auteur Stanley Kubrick is nihilistic or not‚ and appropriately so. To my mind‚ this is one of the most important questions we can ask about genuine artists and their oeuvres. If auteur criticism is to have any validity‚ from a philosophical perspective‚ it must address such issues. True cinematic geniuses (e.g.‚ Bergman‚ Antonioni‚ Wertmuller‚ Hitchcock

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    which is also a homecoming.” (Rowe‚ 56) Kubrick as a director and writer‚ does not convey meaning and emotion through the traditional senses‚ but rather uses allegory and metaphor within films to provide a baseline for meaning. This implicit nature is what sets Kubrick apart from many other directors‚ and can be considered as one of the many traditional Kubrickian styles. Throughout the career of Kubrick many societal influences shaped and moulded the Kubrick expectation‚ whether that regards to the

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    however‚ their credibility is questionable. When taking into consideration ghost‚ demons‚ angels‚ possession‚ etc‚ it is questioned on whether or not these things exist or are a cover for mental instability. In the movie The Shining directed by Stanley Kubrick‚ Jack torrance accepts the responsibility of watching over the Overlook Hotel. Although a spacious and visually pleasing hotel‚ it is believed that the previous caretaker obtained “cabin fever” and killed his family and then committed suicide

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    verbalize or analyze it.” Stanley Kubrick I intend to critically evaluate the significance of Stanley Kubrick as a filmmaker. Stanley Kubrick according to the New York tabloids is seen as a “secretive”‚ ’ ’strange‚ ’ ’ ’ ’mysterious ’ ’ and a ’ ’cold ’ ’ director (P. Bogdanovich 1999:1)‚ but the story differs from old friends like Steven Spielberg (the Kubrick coner 2000). According to Steven Spielberg “In the whole history of movies‚ there has been nothing like Kubrick ’s vision of hope and wonder

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    The Shining (1980) is creative director Stanley Kubrick’s intense‚ epic‚ gothic horror film and haunted house masterpiece - a beautiful‚ stylish work that distanced itself from the blood-letting and gore of most modern films in the horror genre. (The film waits until its climax to provide the typical catharctic bloody violence of most traditional horror films.) The film’s source material from science-fiction/horror author Stephen King’s 1977 best-selling novel (his third novel under his own name)

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    Spanning contentious themes of morality and psychology‚ Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange sparked polarizing reception among critics upon its 1941 release. The film‚ based on the novel by Anthony Burgess‚ follows the exuberant amoral acts of Alex‚ a thug in a dystopian city‚ until his gang betrays him to the authorities and‚ rather than be taught right from wrong‚ is brainwashed to detest sex and violence through inhumane techniques. While some critics‚ such as Vincent Canby of The New York Times

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    Hanna Moradi TCS 004 Professor Ravetto-Biagioli February 17‚ 2011 TITLE GOES HERE SHAPE \* MERGEFORMAT Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey is one of the most significant films in the science-fiction film community. Made in 1968‚ the film revolves around the ideas of the evolution of humans‚ the advancement of technology‚ space travel‚ and extraterrestrial lifeforms. Stanley Kubrick presents the film in a completely groundbreaking and futuristic light with innovative special effects‚ multi-perspective

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    Clockwork Cruelty The names Stanley Kubrick and Antonin Artaud are ones that are not often‚ if ever‚ heard together in the same sentence. However‚ this does not mean they have nothing in common. In fact Kubrick ’s film A Clockwork Orange shares elements with Artaud ’s Theatre of Cruelty. This is seen in the disorienting use of language‚ visuals in which “violent physical images crush and hypnotize the sensibility of the spectator” (Cardullo‚ 375)‚ and in how the film ’s

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    Introduction In this essay there will be attempted to establish Stanley Kubrick as one of the world’s best directors by using the auteur theory witch elevates a director as not just a member of the film crew but as the artist bringing his personal style and personality to a film. Kubrick’s work will be analysed in accordance with the auteur theory in other to establish that he is one of the best directors in the industry. The auteur theory makes it possible for a film to be more than a collaborative

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    2001: A Space Odyssey The following paper will analyze the movie‚ "2001: A Space Odyssey" by Stanley Kubrick" and "The Centinel" by Arthur C. Clarke. Although there are many themes present between the story and the film‚ the following are the most dominant. I will be discussing Scientific themes‚ Religious and Moral Themes‚ and Clarke’s development of the short story into a full-length film. The first issue‚ I will be discussing the scientific themes of the movie. The movie‚ "2001: A Space

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    Stanley Kubrick’s cold and frightening "The Shining" challenges the mind. In the opening scene at a job interview‚ we meet Jack Torrance‚ a man who plans to live for the winter in solitude and isolation with his wife and son. He will be the caretaker of the snowbound Overlook Hotel. His employer warns that a former caretaker murdered his wife and two daughters‚ and committed suicide‚ but Jack told him: "You can rest assured‚ Mr. Ullman‚ that’s not gonna happen with me. And as far as my wife is concerned

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    Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey is considered one of the most impressive science fiction films in the modern era and is a critically acclaimed masterpiece. To begin this analysis I will first give a synopsis of the films plot and key points to help lay a foundation for the film. The movie is broken into 4 acts‚ each focusing on a different event and time in the story. We first start with “The Dawn of Man”; we are greeted by what appears to be a tribe of early hominids foraging for food in

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    Name: Professor: Class: Date: The Theme of Family from the Movie the Shining Stephen Kubrick is undoubtedly one of the most innovative and influential filmmaker of the late twentieth century. His touching‚ interesting‚ appealing‚ and visionary approach to films coupled with his cinematography and film-making genius are an embodiment of great film-making that leaves an everlasting mark on the audiences. The Shining‚ a psychological horror film based on the novel by the same name by Stephen King‚

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    Satire in Dr. StrangeLove? Dr. StrangeLove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb was produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick in 1964. "Dr. StrangeLove" is a Cold War suspense comedy that depicts the extreme tensions felt by the American government and public regarding the potential for nuclear war. Roger Ebert‚ a critic wrote that this "cold war satire…opened with the force of a bucketful of cold water‚ right in the face". In his review Ebert’s contemplates the use and effectiveness

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    Stanley Kubrick uses his film‚ Full Metal Jacket to say that people today are brainwashed products of decades of conditioning. Kubrick strongly encourages us to relish individual thought. He expresses that society’s ideology encourages conformity‚ which can eventually cause fatality. Also the article "You Cant Hack It Little Girl: A Discussion Of The Covert Psychological Agenda of Modern Combat Training" by R Wayne Eisenhart realizes the extreme repression on individuality in the Marines.

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    The Shining‚ a film produced by Stanley Kubrick in the year of 1980‚ is a classic horror movie about a family isolated in a haunted hotel for the winter. However‚ Bill Blakemore‚ a journalist‚ has written an article that claims that the film has much more meaning to it than just a man gone mad in a sinister hotel filled with dark entities. The article “The Family Of Man” written by Bill Blakemore‚ could make it seem as if it is almost an entirely new film. However‚ the movie is no more than what

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