Stanley Kubrick's name is widely recognizable; he is revered for making films that are entertaining and intellectually stimulating. This volume offers a detailed analysis of his major films beginning with The Killing (1956) and ending with Full Metal Jacket (1987). Students of film as well as the general public will be interested in learning new strategies for watching these extraordinary films, since there are few instructive books on this master filmmaker.Kubrick's mastery of technique and the complexity of form in his films is impressive. This formal mastery is always at the service of intricate thematics and organizational coherence. Falsetto's contention in this volume is that Kubrick's work revolves around particular dualities of meaning: subjective/objective, classical/modernist, rational/irrational, and so forth. Despite the complexity of the films, they remain accessible because they are entertaining, while forceful, serious, and inventive. Kubrick is an artist who uses the medium of film to communicate many ideas about the world. He is unquestionably the individual with the greatest input into the final form of his films: a genuine auteur director.

Stanley Kubrick: A Narrative and Stylistic Analysis

Humor & Entertainment

Falsetto, Mario

Movies

Praeger Publishers

The second edition of Mario Falsetto's extensive analysis of Kubrick's films carefully examines the filmmaker's oeuvre in its entirety--from smaller, early films (The Killing) through mid-career masterpieces (Dr. Strangelove; 2001: A Space Odyssey; A Clockwork Orange), later films such as Full Metal Jacket, and his final work, 1999's Eyes Wide Shut. The author, offering close readings supported by precise shot descriptions, shows us how Kubrick's body of work represents a stylistically and thematically consistent cinematic vision, one that merges formal experimentation with great philosophical complexity.
Falsetto explores many of Kubrick's often-used devices, including the long-take aesthetic, voice-overs, and moving camera, and discusses the thematic uses to which these techniques are applied. Finally, he presents the very first formal analysis of Eyes Wide Shut, the director's final, very much underrated masterwork.

Praeger

The massive investments made in Hollywood today mandate tight studio controls on mainstream cinema. As a result, one must often look to alternative outlets in order to see a movie intended primarily as art―or even as a sincere effort at entertainment―instead of as a simple source of revenue. Foreign and independent movies thus often play the role of bellwether for the Hollywood studios that are unable to experiment themselves: behind the look of the studio smash Sin City, for instance, was the rigorous pulp style of Road to Perdition; before the sadism and cynicism of many current thrillers and horror movies there was the work of Neil Labute; and where would Hollywood's plots be without the harsh, fragmented narratives of Guillermo Arriaga and Alejandro Inarritu? By looking at these films, and at the people who created them,we can obtain a clearer sense of what movies really are at heart, and what they may still want to become.
Elaborate measures are thus taken everywhere and at all points to maintain a grip on the public's imagination, but the more adept Hollywood becomes at giving the public what it wants, the less any given studio is able to say anything new or truly innovative. Inside of the United States, this means looking to independent films; outside of the United States, it means filtering through an enormous mass of movies and moviemakers.
In Volume 1 of this revealing set, Mario Falsetto presents extended interviews with nine of the most prominent independent film directors working in America today; while in Volume 2, Liza Béar gives prominent international filmmakers the opportunity to address essential issues surrounding creativity and production in a number of different geographical setting and contexts.

Dialogues with Independent Filmmakers

The Making of Alternative Cinema [2 volumes]: 2 volumes

Bear, Liza

A collection of articles on the American director's ten most crucial films and interviews with him, including those in Playboy and Rolling Stone . Among the topics are patterns of filmic narration in The Killing and Lolita , filming 2001: A Space Odyssey , photographing Barry Lyndon , and the unravelling of patriarchy in Full Metal Jacket . Includes a full filmography. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Perspectives on Stanley Kubrick (Perspectives on Film)

Twayne Pub

Gus Van Sant is an award-winning film director who has also overseen some significant commercial features, such as Good Will Hunting, as well as the critically acclaimed independents, such as Drugstore Cowboy and My Own Private Idaho. This book contains a critical overview of Van Sant's work and interviews with Van Sant about all of his film projects, from his first film, Mala Noche (1985) to his most recent, Promised Land (2012), as well as his work on the Showtime series, Boss (with Kelsey Grammer).

Conversations with Gus Van Sant

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Falsetto (film studies, Concordia U., Montreal, Canada) deftly interviews 17 independent filmmakers about the films they created, emphasizing the more interesting aspects of how they conceived of the films, how they negotiated their way through the process of creation, and how they view their work i

Personal Visions: Conversations with Contemporary Film Directors

Silman-James Press

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Stanley Kubrick: A Narrative and Stylistic Analysis

Stanley Kubrick: A Narrative and Stylistic Analysis

Dialogues with Independent Filmmakers

The Making of Alternative Cinema [2 volumes]: 2 volumes

Perspectives on Stanley Kubrick (Perspectives on Film)

Conversations with Gus Van Sant

Personal Visions: Conversations with Contemporary Film Directors