Richard Rambuss

Kubrick's Men (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

A provocative re-reading of Stanley Kubrick's work and its focus on masculine desireThe work of Stanley Kubrick amounts to a sustained reflection on the male condition: past, present, and future. The persistent theme of his filmmaking is less violence or sex than it is the pressurized exertion of masculinity in unusual or extreme circumstances, where it may be taxed or exaggerated to various effects, tragic and comic or metamorphosed, distorted, and even undone.The stories that Kubrick s movies tell range from global nuclear politics to the unpredictable sexual dynamics of a marriage; from a day in the life of a New York City prizefighter preparing for a nighttime bout to the evolution of humankind. These male melodramas center on sociality and asociality. They feature male doubles, pairs, and rivals. They explore the romance of men and their machines, and men as machines. They figure intensely conflicted forms of male sexual desire. And they are also very much about male manners, style, taste, and art.Examining the formal, thematic, and theoretical affiliations between Kubrick s three bodies of work his photographs, his documentaries, and his feature films Kubrick s Men offers new vantages on to the question of gender and sexuality, including the first extended treatment of homosexuality in Kubrick s male-oriented work.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Fordham University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. März 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780823293902
• Artikelnr.: 72423511

Autorenporträt

Richard Rambuss is Nicholas Brown Professor of Oratory and Belles Lettres and chair of the Department of English at Brown University. He is the author of Closet Devotions and Spenser's Secret Career and the editor of The English Poems of Richard Crashaw.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Kubrick and the Men's Film 1 1 Men's Pictures 13 Photography
Fight Films
Documentary 2 War Films: Napoleon, Fear and Desire, Paths of Glory, Dr. Strangelove, 2001: A Space Odyssey 43 Maximal Kubrick
Generic War
What Becomes a Man: Decoration and Decorum
The Essence of Men, or Loving the Bomb
Homo Bellicus 3 Male Sexuality and Homosexuality I: Lolita, The Killing, Spartacus 87 Two Normal Guys
Killing Time
At the Baths 4 Male Sexuality and Homosexuality II: Barry Lyndon, A Clockwork Orange, Eyes Wide Shut, The Shining 122 Homosexuals in History
Resucked
Where the Rainbow Ends
Kubrick's Apparitional Homosexuals 5 His Fundamental Core: Full Metal Jacket 168 Head Like a Hole
Field-Fuck
"This Is for Fighting! This Is for Fun!"
"This Is Vietnam, the Movie" Coda: Visual Pleasure in Kubrick 195 Acknowledgments 199 Notes 203 Index 233