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The Wolf at the Door

The Wolf at the Door

Stanley Kubrick, History, and the Holocaust

by Geoffrey Cocks
Paperback
Publication Date: 28/09/2004

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The Wolf at the Door explores the remarkable formal and substantive patterns of cinematic discourse on Germany and the Holocaust in Stanley Kubrick's films. It is the first book on Kubrick to place his cinema into the full context of his life and times - his Jewish past, early years spent under the shadows of fascism and war, and his 1957 marriage into a German family of artists and filmmakers - all provoked his deeply ambivalent preoccupation with the history of Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. While personal and artistic reservations caused Kubrick to abandon several plans for a film on the Holocaust, this preoccupation combined with related cultural discourses in the 1970s, and culminated in a curiously indirect but compelling Holocaust subtext in his 1980 horror film, The Shining. The Wolf at the Door draws on intensive study of all of Kubrick's films, interviews with members of Kubrick's immediate family, and archival research in the United States, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, and Israel.
ISBN:
9780820471150
9780820471150
Category:
Film theory & criticism
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
28-09-2004
Publisher:
Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
338
Dimensions (mm):
230x160x19mm
Weight:
0.52kg

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