Eyes Wide Shut Stanley Kubrick and the Making of His Final Film

by Kolker, Robert P.; Abrams, Nathan

• ISBN13: 9780190678029
• ISBN10: 019067802X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2019-06-05
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Twenty years since its release, Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut remains a complex, visually arresting film about domesticity, sexual disturbance, and dreams. It was on the director's mind for some 50 years before he finally put it into production. Using the Stanley Kubrick Archive at the University of the Arts, London, and interviews with participants in the production, the authors create an archeology of the film that traces the progress of the film from its origins to its completion, reception, and afterlife. The book is also an appreciation of this enigmatic work and its equally enigmatic creator.

Author Biography

Robert P. Kolker taught cinema studies for almost 50 years. He is author of A Cinema of Loneliness, The Altering Eye, Film, Form, and Culture, Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick and the Reimagining of Cinema, and editor of 2001: A Space Odyssey: New Essays and The Oxford Handbook of Film and Media Studies.

Nathan Abrams is Professor in Film at Bangor University in Wales. He is founding co-editor of Jewish Film and New Media: An International Journal, as well as the author of The New Jew in Film: Exploring Jewishness and Judaism in Contemporary Cinema and Stanley Kubrick: New York Jewish Intellectual.

Table of Contents

Chronology
Preface
Introduction
Chapter One: "It's Probably Going to be the Hardest Film to Make": Stanley Kubrick, Arthur Schnitzler, and the Long Gestation of Eyes Wide Shut
Chapter Two: The Jewish Tailor: Writing the Screenplay of Eyes Wide Shut
Chapter Three: The Knishery: Pre-Production
Chapter Four: "They Absolutely Took Their Skin Off": The Production of Eyes Wide Shut
Chapter Five: "Mayhem": Postproduction
Chapter Six: "A Genuine Work of Honest Art": The Reception and Afterlife of Eyes Wide Shut
Chapter Seven: Non-Submersible Units: An analysis of Key Scenes in Eyes Wide Shut
Epilogue: Eyes Wide Shut, Kubrick's Films, and the History of Cinema
Filmography
Notes
Bibliography
Index