Search results for " Kubrick"
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La mappa di Clarke: l'altra storia di 2001
2009
Il saggio ripercorre la genesi di "2001: A Space Odissey": da un lato il film di Stanley Kubrick, dall'altro il romanzo di Arthur C. Clarke. Queste due odissee respingono le etichette: né adattamento, né novellizzazione, ma uno strano parto gemellare. Nei parti gemellari, è noto, il maggiore cede il passo al minore, ma resta pur sempre il primogenito. E il primogenito nel nostro caso - un'attenta rilettura delle fonti lo dimostra - è il romanzo.
: Metonymy, Identification and Subjecthood in Stanley Kubrick's Lolita (1962)
2009
The author argues that, in order to bypass the Hays code, the eroticism in Kubrick's film is produced by metonymy, both verbal and non-verbal. Basing his study on the works of Christian Metz and Laura Mulvey, and more broadly on Lacanian psychoanalysis, the author analyzes how the film first constructs the character of Lolita as a “sexual object” subjected to the male gaze, then deconstructs its own construction by enabling Lolita to accede to the symbolic order, thus breaking out of the solipsistic imaginary the pedophile had confined her to. The film puts the spectator in the pervert's shoes by encouraging primary identification with the camera eye, secondary identification with Humbert H…
Kubrick come brand
2009
The Ludovico Cure. On Body and Music in "A Clockwork Orange"
2009
A Clockwork Orange is a novel by Anthony Burgess (1961) and a movie by Stanley Kubrick (1972). Starting from these two famous works, a series of different texts have been produced: a record by Walter Carlos was drawn from the soundtrack; a theatre version and another novel by Burgess; a rich and intense critical debate on newspapers, reviews, articles and volumes; the film itself has become a cult that the web has thoroughly amplified. This debate was not concerned only with aesthetic issues regarding the value of the two works. It has involved ethic and communicative issues, as well as social and juridical ones concerning the bad influence the two works could have on the public due to the …