The Cinema of Stanley Kubrick

With more than 50,000 copies sold since its original publication, this first and still definitive study of the career of the late Stanley Kubrick is now updated to include his last film Eyes Wide Shut.

Norman Kagan reflects on a body of cinematic work that spans nearly fifty years -- from the earliest, Fear and Desire, through Dr. Strangelove and 2001, to Kubrick's final work, which was completed just before the great auteur's untimely death. Based on a lesser-known short novel by Arthur Schnitzler, Eyes Wide Shut is studied in depth for what it reveals about Kubrick's techniques and psychological approach to filmmaking.