by Seth Lamey | Aug 1, 2018 | Issues
This issue of POVwinona concludes my analysis of the work of Stanley Kubrick. The visual essay above examines Kubrick’s work through the lens of the auteur theory as posited by Andrew Sarris in 1962–a theory that rose among critics and scholars at the...
by Seth Lamey | Jul 30, 2018 | Criticism
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) Just as he had obsessed over the potential for nuclear war and self-destruction by the human race, Kubrick similarly became interested in the prospect of extra-terrestrial life. After reading everything he could on the subject, he decided...
by Seth Lamey | Jul 30, 2018 | Criticism
Barry Lyndon (1975) Looking for a new challenge after his most successful stretch of work, Stanley Kubrick turned to adapting the William Makepeace Thackeray 1844 novel The Luck of Barry Lyndon. Funded by Warner Bros. for the second straight film, Kubrick would again...
by Seth Lamey | Jul 30, 2018 | Criticism
Full Metal Jacket (1987) By the mid-1980s, Kubrick and screenwriter Michael Herr had become fascinated with Gustav Hasford’s novel The Short-Timers, a depiction of the Vietnam War through the perspective of a Marine trained to kill. War had been an obsession of...
by Seth Lamey | Jul 9, 2018 | Issues
This issue of POVwinona will focus its critical lens on legendary film director Stanley Kubrick, looking first at his start in filmmaking, then examining his developing work in light of the theory of the director as auteur that was emerging at the same time. With this...
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