Stanley Kubrick was arguably one of the most influential American directors of the post-World War II era, whose Central European Jewish heritage, though often overlooked, greatly influenced his oeuvre. Kubrick’s Mitteleuropa explores this influence in ways that range from his work with Hungarian and Polish composers Béla Bartók, György Ligeti, and Krzysztof Penderecki to the visual inspiration of artists such as Egon Schiele, Gustav Klimt, and other Central European Modernists. Beyond exploring the Mitteleuropean sensibility in Kubrick’s films, the contributions in this volume also provide important commentary on the reception of his films in countries across Eastern Europe.
Table of Content
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Kubrick and Mitteleuropa, or, a Source of Fascination and Anxiety
Jeremi Szaniawski and Nathan Abrams
Chapter 1. Kubrick’s Kunstwollen: Fin-de-Siècle Vienna and the Erotics of Authorship in Eyes Wide Shut
Maxfield Fulton
Chapter 2. The Reverberations of War: Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front and the Cinema of Stanley Kubrick
Jason Doerre
Chapter 3. From Caligari to Kubrick: Programmed Children in Weimar Cinema and Stanley Kubrick’s Science Fictions
Joy Mc Entee
Chapter 4. Kubrick and Kafka: The Corporeal Uncanny
Brigitte Peucker
Chapter 5. A Dark Meditation on the Human Condition: The Shining and Mitteleuropa
Geoffrey Cocks
Chapter 6. Kubrick/Schulz: Echoes of Poland in The Shining
Jeremi Szaniawski
Chapter 7. Penderecki and Kubrick
Krzysztof Kozłowski
Chapter 8. Restricted Area: On the Distribution and Reception of Stanley Kubrick’s Films in the Polish People’s Republic
Konrad Klejsa
Chapter 9. “A Sentimental Postcard to his Forefathers?”: Stanley Kubrick’s Aryan Papers (1991-1993)
Nathan Abrams
About the author
Nathan Abrams is a professor of film, as well as thelead director for the Centre for Film, Television and Screen Studiesat Bangor University in Wales.He is a founding co-editor of Jewish Film and New Media: An International Journal, and his most recent books include Kubrick: An Odyssey (Pegasus Books, 2024), Eyes Wide Shut: Stanley Kubrick and the Making of His Final Film (Oxford University Press, 2019), and Stanley Kubrick: New York Jewish Intellectual (Rutgers University Press, 2018), as well as the edited collections Eyes Wide Shut: Behind Stanley Kubrick’s Masterpiece (Liverpool University Press, 2023), and The Bloomsbury Companion to Stanley Kubrick (Bloomsbury, 2021).
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