
Stanley Kubrick had a great talent for creating memorable images--such as his famous jump cut from a bone tossed into the prehistoric sky to a spaceship orbiting the earth in 2001. Like the composer of a great symphony, Kubrick also had the ability to draw his memorable...

This volume povides an intensive, scene-by-scene analysis of Kubrick's most mature work. In these films, Kubrick dramatized the complexity and mutability of the human struggle, in settings so diverse that some have failed to see the common threads.