Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey: New Essays (repost)
Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey: New Essays By Robert Kolker
Publisher: O U P 2006 | 216 Pages | ISBN: 0195174534 , 0195174526 | PDF | 1 MB
Publisher: O U P 2006 | 216 Pages | ISBN: 0195174534 , 0195174526 | PDF | 1 MB
Almost all students have seen 2001, but virtually none understand its inheritance, its complexities, and certainly not its ironies. The essays in this collection, commissioned from a wide variety of scholars, examine in detail various possible readings of the film and its historical context. They also examine the film as a genre piece–as the summa of science fiction that simultaneously looks back on the science fiction conventions of the past (Kubrick began thinking of making a science fiction film during the genre's heyday in the fifties), rethinks the convention in light of the time of the film's creation, and in turn changes the look and meaning of the genre that it revived–which now remains as prominent as it was almost four decades ago.