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Title: Kubrick: Inside a Film Artist's Maze by Thomas Allen Nelson ISBN: 0-253-21390-8 Publisher: Indiana University Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.86 (14 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Good, could be better
Comment: This book about Kubrick is by far the most probing of his work. Nelson goes into so much detail about each film--nicely excluding the early films and Spartacus, which don't fit into Kubrick's signature style--that its exhausting. But most of his info is psychological, and this can be very confusing to people like me who aren't educated in such metaphysics. He goes off on lots of tangents that I, being a literate and knowledgeable person, sometimes just don't understand. He makes some good points though and the book is good. I admit I'll probably look for the new edition with Full Metal Jacket and Eyes Wide Shut added on.
Rating: 5
Summary: A wonderful view
Comment: There can be no greater praise for a book about Kubrick than to say that it is worthy of its subject. This one is. The opening chapter gives the bare biographical facts, and attempts to dispel a few of the myths about Kubrick's personality - not least the idea that, for example, a man's real or journalistically endowed flying phobia should have the least relevance for a viewer or a critic of his films. The next chapter analyses the early films up to the first masterpiece, Paths of Glory; and each subsequent film (except for the compromised Spartacus) has a chapter to itself. Nelson's critiques are detailed, comprehensive, thoroughly readable and constructive - which is to say, favourable. He appreciates the films and wishes others to appreciate them too. This revised and expanded edition contains, in the first chapter, a charming tribute to the director and, in two new chapters, analyses of Full Metal Jacket and Eyes Wide Shut which show that, in the intervening years between The Shining and the present, Nelson's abilities have diminished as little as Kubrick's. All the essays in the book can be read and enjoyed for their own sake - I was especially fond of the one on A Clockwork Orange, long before I was able to see the film itself - but they will also make you long to be back there in the dark, sharing the artist's vision with the eyes Nelson has widened for you.
Rating: 1
Summary: Only if you are a true Kubrick fan
Comment: I was so so offended by the slackness and cheekiness of this book that I absolutely had to write a review... The writing style is so bad it will make your head spin like a top. The sentences run on forever, and Professor Nelson can't seem to keep to a point at all. He spends most of his time impressing himself instead of trying to communicate with readers. Don't bother with this one unless you are a true Kubrick diehard.
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Title: Stanley Kubrick, Director: A Visual Analysis by Alexander Walker, Sybil Taylor, Ulrich Ruchti ISBN: 0393321193 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: September, 2000 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Stanley Kubrick: Interviews (Conversations With Filmmakers Series) by Stanley Kubrick, Gene D. Phillips ISBN: 1578062977 Publisher: University Press of Mississippi Pub. Date: 01 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: The Encyclopedia of Stanley Kubrick (Library of Great Filmmakers) by Rodney Hill, Gene D. Phillips ISBN: 0816043892 Publisher: Facts on File Pub. Date: 01 June, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Stanley Kubrick : A Narrative and Stylistic Analysis Second Edition by Mario Falsetto ISBN: 0275972917 Publisher: Praeger Paperback Pub. Date: 30 July, 2001 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: The Complete Kubrick by David Hughes, Peter Bogdanovich ISBN: 0753504529 Publisher: Virgin Publishing Pub. Date: 01 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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