Table of Contents

Contents
Preface to the Second Edition
1 Kubrick and the Aesthetics of Contingency: The Shaping of a Film Imagination
2 In The Beginning: From Fear and Desire to Paths of Glory
3 Lolita: Kubrick in Nabokovland
4 Dr. Strangelove: The Descent of Man
5 2001: A Space Odyssey: The Ultimate Cinematic Universe
6 A Clockwork Orange: The Performing Artist
7 Barry Lyndon: A Time Odyssey
8 The Shining: Remembrance of Things Forgotten
9 Full Metal Jacket: The Kubrickian Thing
10 Eyes Wide Shut: House Calls
11 Postscript
Filmography
Selected Bibliography
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index

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A comprehensive study of the films of Stanley Kubrick.

About the Author

Thomas Allen Nelson is Professor of English at San Diego State University and author of Shakespeare's Comic Theory.