Gender, Power, and Identity in The Films of Stanley Kubrick

ISBN-13: 9781032072227 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 376 str.

Opis

This volume features a set of thought-provoking and long overdue approaches to situating Stanley Kubrick’s films in contemporary debates around gender, race, and age – with a focus on women’s representations.

Spis treści

Introduction;  1. The Problems with Lolita (1962);  2. Sue Lyon and the Consequences of the “Lolita Look”;  3. The Legacy of Spartacus (1960) in the Depiction of Ancient Slavery Onscreen: Draba and His Heirs;  4. From Female Stereotypes to Women with Agency: Elite Women and Slave Women in Howard Fast’s 1951 novel, Spartacus (1960) and Starz Spartacus (2010-2013);  5. Fear and Desire, Casual Misogyny, and 1950s Art House Cinema;  6. The Shining and UK Feminist Activism;  7. Mothers Trapped Between Law, Economy, Society, and Desire;  8. A Feminist Kubrick? Or, What if Women Were the Main Character(s) in Stanley Kubrick’s films?;  9. Kubrick’s and Klimt’s Femmes Fatales: Eyes Wide Shut and the Crisis of Masculine Identity;  10. Kubrick and Sex: Exploring the Gender Politics of His Cinema;  11. Kubrick’s Crypto-Jewesses;  12. Misogyny and Music in A Clockwork Orange;  13. Wendy Torrance and Alice Harford, Shrews Who Will Not Be Tamed;  14. Violence and Power in Kubrick’s Later Cinema;  15. Female Transgression and Discontent in Barry Lyndon;  16. Kubrick and Bergman: Scenes from a Marriage;  17. Someone to Care About: Children in Stanley Kubrick’s Films;  18. Old Age, Ageing and Fatherhood in Kubrick