Depth of Field: Stanley Kubrick, Film, and the Uses of History

by Geoffrey Cocks

Book Overview

Director of some of the most controversial films of the twentieth century, Stanley Kubrick created a reputation as a Hollywood outsider as well as a cinematic genius. His diverse yet relatively small oeuvre--he directed only thirteen films during a career that spanned more than four decades--covers a broad range of the themes that shaped his century and continues to shape the twenty-first: war and crime, gender relations and class conflict, racism,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299216101
• ISBN13: 9780299216108
• Release Date: June 2006
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 342 Pages
• Weight: 1.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.1"