Kubrick

‘Nobody could make a film like Stanley Kubrick.’ Steven Spielberg

Kubrick’s interest in observing human folly produced some of the most important works of art of the twentieth century, including 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, Dr. Strangelove, Barry Lyndon and The Shining.

Based on Kubrick’s archive, as well as new interviews with family members and those who worked with him, Kubrick: An Odyssey offers comprehensive, in-depth coverage of Kubrick’s personal, public and working life.

This long-awaited, new biography dispels the myths surrounding the allegedly reclusive director, who spent his career determined to transcend traditional film-making.

‘Kolker and Abrams have unearthed some superb new facts about the director.’ The Times, ‘Book of the Week’

‘An authoritative portrait of the director. Filled with striking behind-the-scenes stories and elevated by a keen understanding of Kubrick’s style, this is a biography as monumental as its subject.’ Publishers Weekly

‘Myths are debunked, and everyone from the Kubrick obsessive to the casual fan will be beguiled.’ Guardian

Author Biography

ROBERT P. KOLKER earned his PhD in English Literature from Columbia University. He went on to teach at various universities, among them New York University, before retiring to dedicate his time to writing. He is the author of many books, including four editions of A Cinema of Loneliness (OUP) and, more recently, The Extraordinary Image: Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, and the Reimagining of Cinema and Triumph over Containment: American Film in the 1950s (both with Rutgers University Press). With Nathan Abrams he has written Eyes Wide Shut: Stanley Kubrick and the Making of His Final Film (OUP).

NATHAN ABRAMS is a professor of film studies at Bangor University in Wales and a cultural historian and commentator. He was born in London in 1972 and studied at the University of Oxford and the University of Birmingham. He is an expert on British and American popular culture, history of film and intellectual culture, especially Jewish themes and topics. He has written and edited over a dozen books, including several on Stanley
Kubrick, such as Eyes Wide Shut: Stanley Kubrick and the Making of His Final Film (with Robert Kolker) and Stanley Kubrick: New York Jewish Intellectual. He is also the co-founder and co-editor of Jewish Film and New Media: An International Journal. He lectures, writes and broadcasts widely (in English and in Welsh) on various aspects of contemporary culture.