Overview

Twenty years after its release, Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut remains a complex, visually arresting film about marriage, jealousy, domesticity, adultery, sexual disturbance, and dreams. This was the final enigmatic work from its equally enigmatic creator. It has left an indelible mark on our popular culture and remains as relevant as ever. Much maligned and much misunderstood when it first came out, Eyes Wide Shut has since been the subject of an animated debate and discussion among critics, fans and academics. It has been explored from a wide variety of disciplines and methodological perspectives. This collection brings scholars from diverse disciplinary backgrounds together with those who worked on the film to explore Eyes Wide Shut’s legacy, discuss its impact, and consider its position within Kubrick’s oeuvre and the wider visual and socio-political culture.

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Author:   Nathan Abrams ,  Georgina Orgill
Publisher:   Liverpool University Press
Imprint:   Liverpool University Press
ISBN:  

9781837645152

ISBN 10:   1837645159
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   03 November 2023
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

List of illustrations Notes on contributors Acknowledgements Introduction, Nathan Abrams and Georgina Orgill PART ONE: PRODUCTION ‘Infidelity troubled him deeply’: A journey to the root of Eyes Wide Shut, Filippo Ulivieri A Choreographic Liaison: Collaborating with Stanley Kubrick on the Masked Ball for Eyes Wide Shut, Yolande Snaith Stanley Kubrick’s last film and the question of authorship, Manca Perko PART TWO: THE FILM ‘If You Men Only Knew’: Stanley Kubrick’s Failed Attempt to Explore Female Sexuality in Eyes Wide Shut, Catriona M. McAvoy and Karen A. Ritzenhoff What about the daughters? Parenthood in Eyes Wide Shut, Joy McEntee ‘Lucky to Be Alive’: Clockwork Models and the Logic of the Inanimate in Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut, Ohad Landesman Eyes Re-opened: Elucidation and Enlightenment Through Music in Eyes Wide Shut, Marie Bennett PART THREE: RECEPTION Framing Eye Wide Shut as a Late-90s ‘Quality’ Blockbuster: Authorship and Stardom in Kubrick’s Final Film, Eddie Falvey A cloaked and masked film: some things Eyes Wide Shut may (really) be about, Jeremi Szaniawski Eyes Wide Shut: A Cult Film?, Matt Melia Afterword, Robert P. Kolker Index

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Nathan Abrams is Professor of Film at Bangor University and a founding member of the Stanley Kubrick Network. He has written widely and extensively on Kubrick (as well as film in general). His previous publications include, Stanley Kubrick: Jewish Intellectual (Rutgers UP) and, with Robert Kolker, Eyes Wide Shut: Stanley Kubrick and the Making of His Final Film (OUP, 2019). He also edited the Bloomsbury Companion to Stanley Kubrick (2021) with IQ Hunter and is currently writing a biography of Kubrick to be published by Faber & Faber in 2024. Georgina Orgill is Senior Archivist at The Stanley Kubrick Archive. She has previously contributed to the Bloomsbury Companion to Stanley Kubrick (2021), co-edited a volume on A Clockwork Orange, and written on archival cataloguing and access for the teaching and learning journal SPARK (2019).

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