Best Stanley Kubrick Biography - April 2024

The Stanley Kubrick Archives (Bibliotheca Universalis)

In 1968, when Stanley Kubrick was asked to comment on the metaphysical significance of 2001: A Space Odyssey, he replied: “It’s not a message I ever intended to convey in words. 2001 is a nonverbal experience… I tried to create a visual experience, one that directly penetrates the subconscious with an emotional and philosophic content.”Now available as part of our Bibliotheca Universalis series, The Stanley Kubrick Archives borrows from the director’s philosophy. From the opening sequence of Killer’s Kiss to the final frames of Eyes Wide Shut, it allows the masterful visuals of Kub... [Read More]

• ASIN: 3836555824
• ASIN: 3836555824
• ISBN: 3836555824
• Brand: Taschen
• Manufacturer: TASCHEN

Stanley Kubrick: A Biography

Stanley Kubrick, director of the acclaimed films Path of Glory, Spartacus, Lolita, Dr. Strangelove, 2001: Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, The Shining, and Full Metal Jacket, is arguably one of the greatest American filmmakers. Yet, despite being hailed as "a giant" by Orson Welles, little is known about the reclusive director. Stanley Kubrick--the first full-length study of his life--is based on assiduous archival research as well as new interviews with friends, family, and colleagues.Film scholar Vincent LoBrutto provides a comprehensive portrait of the director, from his high school days ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0306809060
• ASIN: 0306809060
• ISBN: 0306809060
• Manufacturer: Da Capo Press

The Making of Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey'

Get closer than ever to the movie that changed the movies. This behind-the-scenes spectacular of 2001: A Space Odyssey sheds light on the lead actors, senior production designers, special-effects experts and masterminds of Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke, who together revolutionized science fiction and the art of cinema.Previously available as part of the multi-volume and instant sell-out Collector's Edition, this comprehensive visual record includes on and off set photographs, pre-production paintings, and conceptual designs from the Kubrick archives. With numerous fold-outs, these dazzl... [Read More]

• ASIN: 3836559544
• UPC: 884745445056
• ASIN: 3836559544
• ISBN: 3836559544
• Brand: Bizony Piers
• Manufacturer: TASCHEN

Stanley Kubrick and Me: Thirty Years at His Side

This intimate portrait by his former personal assistant and confidante reveals the man behind the legendary filmmaker—for the first time.Stanley Kubrick, the director of a string of timeless movies from Lolita and Dr. Strangelove to A Clockwork Orange, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Full Metal Jacket, and others, has always been depicted by the media as the Howard Hughes of filmmakers, a weird artist obsessed with his work and privacy to the point of madness. But who was he really? Emilio D'Alessandro lets us see. A former Formula Ford driver who was a minicab chauffeur in London during the Swinging... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1628726695
• ASIN: 1628726695
• ISBN: 1628726695
• Brand: Arcade
• Manufacturer: Arcade

Space Odyssey: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke, and the Making of a Masterpiece

The definitive story of the making of 2001: A Space Odyssey, acclaimed today as one of the greatest films ever made, and of director Stanley Kubrick and writer Arthur C. Clarke—“a tremendous explication of a tremendous film….Breathtaking” (The Washington Post).Fifty years ago a strikingly original film had its premiere. Still acclaimed as one of the most remarkable and important motion pictures ever made, 2001: A Space Odyssey depicted the first contacts between humanity and extraterrestrial intelligence. The movie was the product of a singular collaboration between Stanley Kubrick and... [Read More]

• ASIN: B074ZP9S44
• ASIN: B074ZP9S44
• Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster

Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures

The wife of the Hollywood genius shares an intimate portrait of the great director through his favorite medium--photographs--offering more than two hundred images from his first film through his posthumously completed project, A.I.. 15,000 first printing.

• ASIN: 0821228153
• ASIN: 0821228153
• ISBN: 0821228153
• Brand: Brand: Bulfinch
• Manufacturer: Bulfinch

Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-and-Rock 'N' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood

When the low-budget biker movie Easy Rider shocked Hollywood with its success in 1969, a new Hollywood era was born. This was an age when talented young filmmakers such as Scorsese, Coppola, and Spielberg, along with a new breed of actors, including De Niro, Pacino, and Nicholson, became the powerful figures who would make such modern classics as The Godfather, Chinatown, Taxi Driver, and Jaws. Easy Riders, Raging Bulls follows the wild ride that was Hollywood in the '70s -- an unabashed celebration of sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll (both onscreen and off) and a climate where innovation and exp... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0684857081
• ASIN: 0684857081
• ISBN: 0684857081
• Brand: Biskind, Peter
• Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster

The Encyclopedia of Stanley Kubrick (Library of Great Filmmakers)

Surveys the director's life and career with information on his films, key people in his life, technical information, themes, locations, and film theory.

• ASIN: 0816043892
• ASIN: 0816043892
• ISBN: 0816043892
• Brand: Brand: Checkmark Books
• Manufacturer: Checkmark Books

Kubrick

Kubrick is Michael Herr's memoir of his nearly twenty-year friendship and collaboration with Stanley Kubrick, one of the greatest filmmakers of all time and the creator of such classics as Dr. Strangelove, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and A Clockwork Orange. From their first meeting at an advance screening of The Shining in 1980, Kubrick and Herr began an intense intellectual exchange that grew into the artistic collaboration that ultimately produced the groundbreaking Vietnam film Full Metal Jacket. Filled with personal insights and previously untold anecdotes, Kubrick is a probing view into the in... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0802138187
• ASIN: 0802138187
• ISBN: 0802138187
• Brand: Grove Atlantic
• Manufacturer: Grove Press

Stanley Kubrick, Director: A Visual Analysis

Alexander Walker's Stanley Kubrick, Director is the only book ever written with Kubrick's cooperation. This new edition, revised and expanded to discuss all of Kubrick's films―including Eyes Wide Shut―again received the approval of the reclusive director, who before his death allowed the use of illustrations taken directly from his films' frames. The result is a frame-by-frame examination of the inimitable style that infuses every Kubrick movie, from the pitch-perfect hilarity of Lolita to the icy supremacy of 2001: A Space Odyssey to the baroque horror of The Shining. The book's beautiful... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0393321193
• ASIN: 0393321193
• ISBN: 0393321193
• Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company

The Spartacus War

An authoritative account from an expert author: The Spartacus War is the first popular history of the revolt in English. A leading authority on classical military history, Barry Strauss has used recent archaeological discoveries, ancient documents, and on-site investigations to create the most accurate and detailed account of the Spartacus rebellion ever written—and it reads like a first-rate novel.A thrilling story that has inspired novelists and filmmakers: The real-life Spartacus is even more amazing than his fictional counterparts. A slave from Thrace (modern day Bulgaria), possibly of n... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1416532064
• ASIN: 1416532064
• ISBN: 1416532064
• Brand: Simon & Schuster
• Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster

The Philosophy of Stanley Kubrick (Philosophy Of Popular Culture)

In the course of fifty years, director Stanley Kubrick produced some of the most haunting and indelible images on film. His films touch on a wide range of topics rife with questions about human life, behavior, and emotions: love and sex, war, crime, madness, social conditioning, and technology. Within this great variety of subject matter, Kubrick examines different sides of reality and unifies them into a rich philosophical vision that is similar to existentialism. Perhaps more than any other philosophical concept, existentialism―the belief that philosophical truth has meaning only if it is ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 081312445X
• ASIN: 081312445X
• ISBN: 081312445X
• Brand: Brand: The University Press of Kentucky
• Manufacturer: University Press of Kentucky

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• ASIN: 0471208884
• ASIN: 0471208884
• ISBN: 0471208884
• Manufacturer: Wiley

Hollywood's Most Influential Directors: The Lives and Legacies of Alfred Hitchcock, Orson Welles, and Stanley Kubrick

*Includes pictures*Includes the directors' quotes about their careers*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading*Includes a table of contentsIn the opening pages of his seminal book-length study of Alfred Hitchcock, Hitchcock’s Films (1965), Robin Wood famously asked, “Why Should We Take Hitchcock Seriously?” Wood then proceeded to offer a detailed examination of Hitchcock’s career to that point, arguing that the Master of Suspense belonged among the ranks of the preeminent directors in Hollywood, and that his films were among the most important in American cultur... [Read More]

• ASIN: B01MSXTL4K
• ASIN: B01MSXTL4K
• Manufacturer: Charles River Editors

Full Metal Jacket Diary

Despite the infamous reputation of the enigmatic Stanley Kubrick, Matthew Modine couldn’t refuse his offer. Faced with the prospects of a career-defining role and mentorship by a cinematic great, the 24-year-old Hollywood actor arrived in London armed with a large-format Roliflex camera–inspired by Kubrick’s early career as a Look photographer–and a notebook to record his own on-set reportage; preparation for his starring role as a Marine Corps journalist.But expectations eroded as a strange, creeping sickness pervaded the set, a horrific accident sidelined a principal, and an unexpect... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1590710479
• ASIN: 1590710479
• ISBN: 1590710479
• Manufacturer: Rugged Land

The Stanley Kubrick Archives

The Kubrick filesFrom the archives of cinematic geniusIn 1968, when Stanley Kubrick was asked to comment on the metaphysical significance of 2001: A Space Odyssey, he replied: "It's not a message I ever intended to

• UPC: 44368052
• Rating: 5.0

Space Odyssey : Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke, and the Making of a Masterpiece

"Celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the film's release, this is the definitive story of the making of 2001: A Space Odyssey, acclaimed today as one of the greatest films ever made, including the inside account

• UPC: 575463810
• Rating: 5.0

Stanley Kubrick Limited Edition Collection (Blu-ray)

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• UPC: 55367621
• Rating: 2.0

Stanley Kubrick Photographs. Through a Different Lens : Through a Different Lens

Stanley's Still Life The young Kubrick's photographic essays for Look magazine Before becoming the critically acclaimed filmmaker responsible for such iconic films as Dr. Strangelove and The Shining, Stanley Kubrick spent five years as a

• UPC: 358673881

Masters of Cinema: Stanley Kubrick

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• UPC: 14149833

Stanley Kubrick : Interviews

By allowing readers to see the inner workings of this reclusive filmmaker, this comprehensive collection of his interviews is invaluable. Ranging from 1959 to 1987 and including Kubrick's conversations with Gene Siskel, Jeremy Bernstein, Gene

• UPC: 801216
• Rating: 4.5

Stanley Kubrick, Director : A Visual Analysis

In the only book written with Kubrick's cooperation, the authors offer a frame-by-frame study of the director's greatest works, including "Eyes Wide Shut", Kubrick's last film directed before his death. Photos and

• UPC: 25674752
• Rating: 5.0

4 Film Favorites: Stanley Kubrick Collection (DVD)

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• UPC: 21566254
• Color: YOther
• Rating: 5.0

The Philosophy of Stanley Kubrick

In The Philosophy of Stanley Kubrick, some of our most respected philosophers investigate Kubrick's art to illuminate his view of reality. In films like 2001: A Space Odyssey, Eyes Wide Shut, and Dr. Strangelove, Kubrick

• UPC: 10763044

The Extraordinary Image : Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, and the Reimagining of Cinema

The Extraordinary Image takes readers on a fascinating journey through the lives and films of three great directors—Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, and Stanley Kubrick—seeking to identify the qualities that made them cinematic visionaries. Offering a

• UPC: 52486430