Stanley Kubrick: A Biography Paperback - 1997
by John Baxter
Noted publicly for such films as "Dr. Strangelove, 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange", and "The Shining", among others, privately Stanley Kubrick lives in seclusion. Now biographer John Baxter breaks through the mystique to reveal the man behind the movies, timed to coincide with the release of Kubrick's latest film--"Eyes Wide Shut". photos.
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For decades, the films of Stanley Kubrick have staked out a claim at the core of our cultural landscape. In the 1950s, he was one of the few American film makers to achieve the gravitas of European cinema with Paths of Glory. To 1960s audiences, he was the man who made both Dr. Strangelove, the influential anti-war movie, and 2001: A Space Odyssey, the counterculture favorite. In the 1970s he created his hymn to urban violence, A Clockwork Orange, and in the 1980s he distilled the nature of private madness and collective insanity with The Shining and Full Metal Jacket. His first film of the 1990s will be Eyes Wide Shut starring Tom Cruise. Yet little is known of the man and the influence exerted by his private life on his public art. Born in the Bronx, Kubrick has lived since 1961 in seclusion in rural England. From in-depth interviews with a range of people who have known the man best, spanning from his childhood to the present, John Baxter now presents the most complete account available of Kubrick's life. The conflicts with partners and stars, the failure to make Napoleon, the failed marriages and broken friendships, the use and abuse of writers and other collaborators - this detailed and complex study addresses all these to reveal a man who, above all, has dared to live life on his terms.
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- Title Stanley Kubrick: A Biography
- Author John Baxter
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 1st
- Pages 399
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Da Capo Press, New York
- Date 1997-08-26
- ISBN 9780786704859 / 0786704853
- Weight 1.27 lbs (0.58 kg)
- Dimensions 8.52 x 5.58 x 1.05 in (21.64 x 14.17 x 2.67 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Kubrick, Stanley, Motion picture producers and directors -
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 97019738
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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Citations
- Booklist, 10/15/1997, Page 375
- Library Journal, 10/15/1997, Page 62
- Publishers Weekly, 09/22/1997, Page 62
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