Whatever people think about Kubrick's work, most would agree that there is something distinctive, even unique, about the films he made: a coolness, an intellectual clarity, a critical edginess, and finally an intractable ambiguity. In an attempt to isolate the Kubrick difference, this book treats Kubrick's films to a conceptual and formal analysis rather than a biographical and chronological survey. As Kubrick's cinema moves between the possibilities of human transcendence dramatized in 2001: A Space Odyssey and the dismal limitations of human nature exhibited in A Clockwork...
Whatever people think about Kubrick's work, most would agree that there is something distinctive, even unique, about the films he made: a coolness,...
While memory is one of the most fascinating faculties of consciousness, it is also one of the most mysterious. Is it memory-our own marvelous personal computer or data base-that brings us the intense feelings prompted by a certain object or situation? Drawing on an expansive array of sources, from microbiology to cosmology, Ovid to Proust, Egyptology to the cinema, Philip Kuberski leads us on a brave and beguiling exploration of memory. He enables us to see it as a worldly process in which individuals both remember and are remembered, all in a network of associations that join our bodies,...
While memory is one of the most fascinating faculties of consciousness, it is also one of the most mysterious. Is it memory-our own marvelous personal...
While memory is one of the most fascinating faculties of consciousness, it is also one of the most mysterious. Is it memory-our own marvelous personal computer or data base-that brings us the intense feelings prompted by a certain object or situation? Drawing on an expansive array of sources, from microbiology to cosmology, Ovid to Proust, Egyptology to the cinema, Philip Kuberski leads us on a brave and beguiling exploration of memory. He enables us to see it as a worldly process in which individuals both remember and are remembered, all in a network of associations that join our bodies,...
While memory is one of the most fascinating faculties of consciousness, it is also one of the most mysterious. Is it memory-our own marvelous personal...
