Kubrick

Catalog description

On Kubrick’s feature films, documentaries, and photography, starting with his sci-fi masterpiece 2001, followed by his early noirs ( Killer’s Kiss; The Killing ); sex films ( Lolita; A Clockwork Orange; Eyes Wide Shut ); and war films ( Paths of Glory; Dr. Strangelove; Full Metal Jacket ). Topics include: adaptation; genre; masculinity in extremis; technophilia and technophobia; the aesthetics of violence; and sex on film. Limited to 20 junior and senior concentrators in English and MCM. Instructor permission required.