Kubricks Men, Richard Rambuss
Kubricks Men, Richard Rambuss
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Kubrick's Men

Author: Richard Rambuss

Narrator: Brian Holden

Unabridged: 9 hr 45 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 05/03/2022


Synopsis

The work of Stanley Kubrick amounts to a sustained reflection on the male condition: past, present, and future. The persistent theme of his filmmaking is less violence or sex than it is the pressurized exertion of masculinity in unusual or extreme circumstances, where it may be taxed or exaggerated to various effects, tragic and comic—or metamorphosed, distorted, and even undone.

The stories that Kubrick's movies tell range from global nuclear politics to the unpredictable sexual dynamics of a marriage; from a day in the life of a New York City prizefighter preparing for a nighttime bout to the evolution of humankind. These male melodramas center on sociality and asociality. They feature male doubles, pairs, and rivals. They explore the romance of men and their machines, and men as machines. They figure intensely conflicted forms of male sexual desire. And they are also very much about male manners, style, taste, and art.

Examining the formal, thematic, and theoretical affiliations between Kubrick's three bodies of work, Kubrick's Men offers new vantages on to the question of gender and sexuality, including the first extended treatment of homosexuality in Kubrick's male-oriented work.

Contains mature themes.

About Richard Rambuss

Richard Rambuss is Nicholas Brown Professor of Oratory and Belles Lettres and chair of the Department of English at Brown University. He is the author of Closet Devotions and Spenser's Secret Career and the editor of The English Poems of Richard Crashaw.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Rubí on August 21, 2022

Loved this. Stumbled upon it in library catalog. An analysis of male gender and sexuality in the films of Kubrick. As a fan of his work, this was such a fascinating exploration of running themes (doubling, ritual, decorum, spectres) in kubrick that i had never made connections between. Def worth rev......more