{"id":777,"date":"2018-08-01T09:33:38","date_gmt":"2018-08-01T14:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/academics.winona.edu\/povwinona\/?p=777"},"modified":"2019-09-30T11:21:30","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T16:21:30","slug":"stanley-kubrick-unique-filmmaking-from-an-established-auteur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/academics.winona.edu\/povwinona\/stanley-kubrick-unique-filmmaking-from-an-established-auteur\/","title":{"rendered":"Stanley Kubrick: Unique Filmmaking from an Established Auteur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Stanley Kubrick: An Established Auteur\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ELcb9BbzWsY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This issue of POVwinona concludes my analysis of the work of Stanley Kubrick.\u00a0 The visual essay above examines Kubrick&#8217;s work through the lens of the auteur theory as posited by Andrew Sarris in 1962&#8211;a theory that rose among critics and scholars at the very moment Kubrick established himself as arguably the most important and influential auteur of the 20th century.<\/p>\n<p>The essays in this issue examine Kubrick&#8217;s output from 1968-1999.\u00a0 First is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/academics.winona.edu\/povwinona\/wp-admin\/post.php?post=686&amp;action=edit\"><em>2001: A Space Odyssey<\/em> and <em>A Clockwork Orange<\/em><\/a>, where Kubrick&#8217;s sci-fi masterpiece would define the genre going forward, and his adaptation of Burgess&#8217; novel further push the envelope of sex and violence in social satire.\u00a0 Next, Kubrick&#8217;s cinematic innovations would continue with the period drama\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/academics.winona.edu\/povwinona\/wp-admin\/post.php?post=722&amp;action=edit\"><em>Barry Lyndon\u00a0<\/em>and the psychological horror film\u00a0<em>The Shining.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/a>Kubrick would employ specially-created lenses and unique natural lighting in\u00a0<em>Barry Lyndon,\u00a0<\/em>then pioneer the use of the Steadicam in\u00a0<em>The Shining<\/em>.\u00a0 The final essay examines how Kubrick fulfilled his vision of reflecting society as he saw it with\u00a0<em>Full Metal Jacket\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0<em>Eyes Wide Shut<\/em>, his final examination of sex and death.<\/p>\n<p>Kubrick made\u00a0only six films in his final thirty years and died just\u00a0 days after delivering the final cut for <em>Eyes Wide Shut<\/em>.\u00a0 He was as careful and exacting of any auteur during his era.\u00a0 His approach to film maker with an uncompromising style would inspire and influence countless filmmakers during and after his time, forever changing the boundaries of genre, adaptation, and auteurship.<\/p>\n<p>In this issue:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/academics.winona.edu\/povwinona\/wp-admin\/post.php?post=686&amp;action=edit\"><em>2001 A Space Odyssey<\/em> and <em>A Clockwork Orange<\/em>: Kubrick at His Apex<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/academics.winona.edu\/povwinona\/wp-admin\/post.php?post=722&amp;action=edit\"><em>Barry Lyndon<\/em> and <em>The Shining<\/em>: Innovating Cinematic Craft<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/academics.winona.edu\/povwinona\/wp-admin\/post.php?post=724&amp;action=edit\"><em>Full Metal Jacket<\/em> and <em>Eyes Wide Shut<\/em>: Kubrick&#8217;s Final Reflection of Humanity<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This issue of POVwinona concludes my analysis of the work of Stanley Kubrick.\u00a0 The visual essay above examines Kubrick&#8217;s work through the lens of the auteur theory as posited by Andrew Sarris in 1962&#8211;a theory that rose among critics and scholars at the very moment Kubrick established himself as arguably the most important and influential auteur of the 20th century.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[6,43],"class_list":["post-777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","hentry","category-issues","tag-seth-lamey","tag-stanley-kubrick","post_format-post-format-video"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/academics.winona.edu\/povwinona\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/academics.winona.edu\/povwinona\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/academics.winona.edu\/povwinona\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/academics.winona.edu\/povwinona\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/academics.winona.edu\/povwinona\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/academics.winona.edu\/povwinona\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2696,"href":"https:\/\/academics.winona.edu\/povwinona\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777\/revisions\/2696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/academics.winona.edu\/povwinona\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/academics.winona.edu\/povwinona\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/academics.winona.edu\/povwinona\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}