Stanley Kubrick wrote the screenplay for and directed the film A Clockwork Orange based on the book by Anthony Burgess with the same title. The distinguishing feature of the book is the language the narrator, Alexander DeLarge, uses: Nadsat, a...

John Huston’s 1941 version of the classic private detective tale The Maltese Falcon remains one of the most faithful film adaptations of any novel ever turned into a movie in Hollywood history. Entire chunks of dialogue by not just leader...

A Clock Work Orange is considered one of the greatest films made by critically acclaimed director Stanley Kubrick. Based on the 1962 book by Anthony Burgess, the film tells the tale of the disturbed psychopath Alex and his violent gang of thugs he...

Masculinity is one of the most prevalent themes in the films of Stanley Kubrick. Kubrick’s films can be viewed as misogynistic, as there is often brutal violence towards women and a considerable lack of prominent or dynamic female characters at...

As Daniel R. White writes in Nietzsche at the Altar: Situating the Devotee, “To laugh at the literal behavior of other characters in the social drama, is to change the truth value of what those characters do so as to undermine its seriousness, its...

Stanley Kubrick's 1964 film Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb presents us with a fascinating satirical snapshot of the Cold War. It reflects back at us the absurdity of US (and to a similar extent Soviet) nuclear...

The devastating events of WWII and the dropping of the Atomic Bomb in 1945 ruptured the foundations of both the physical and psychological position of mankind, provoking an Existential crisis of faith that called into question the possibility of...

“Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t,” is inherently Shakespearean in nature, and translates to the well known contemporary idiom “There’s a method to my madness.”(2.2. 223). While the structure of nuclear diplomacy ventures far...

When Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey” was first released to the public, audiences and critics did not know what to make of it. Here was a film with minimal dialogue, long, obscure sequences that seemed to stretch to infinity, and little...

“Man is a social animal, distinguished by ‘culture’: by the ability to make tools and communicate ideas. Employment of tools appears to be his chief biological characteristic” (Oakley).

Directors Stanley Kubrick and Franklin J. Schaffner maintain...

What if the future of the human race were determined by a black, rectangular block? Though it may sound strange, that is exactly what happens in Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). When a monolith is placed on Earth, the line between...

In itself, the term “posthuman” publicly pays its respects to that which it moves past – the human. As is implied, the posthuman will often hold valuably many qualities of the human that precedes it. Stanley Kubrick’s multiple visions of the...

James Cameron's Avatar, with all its visual splendor, innovation, and ambition, it wasn't enough to make up for the 178 minutes of derivative, heavy-handed storytelling. Avatar isn't the first larger than life blockbuster with a mediocre...

Based on a Stephen King novel, The Shining is a film directed by Stanley Kubrick surrounding the Torrance family. Jack Torrance gets a job caretaking at the Overlook Hotel for one winter and moves there with his wife, Wendy, and young child,...

Based on a Stephen King novel, The Shining is a film directed by Stanley Kubrick surrounding the Torrance family. Jack Torrance gets a job caretaking at the Overlook Hotel for one winter and moves there with his wife, Wendy, and young child,...

Fictional characters are created to either reflect the authors’ personal experiences or address issues prevalent in or overlooked by society. Mental, physical, and emotional issues often plague characters created by Stephen King. Disturbing events...

Arguably the most iconic scene in Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining is the reveal of what exactly he has been writing during his time at The Overlook. As a terrified Wendy flips through pages and pages filled with only the phrase “All work and no play...

In Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining(1980), there is a prominent theme of familicide throughout the film. Familicide is defined as a murder where at least one spouse and one child are killed, usually by the other spouse. Jack Torrance (Jack...

Masculinity is one of the most prevalent themes in the films of Stanley Kubrick. Kubrick’s films can be viewed as misogynistic, as there is often brutal violence towards women and a considerable lack of prominent or dynamic female characters at...

The themes Stephen King and Stanley Kubrick explore in the story of the Torrance family at the Overlook Hotel in The Shining reflect the cultural values and concerns prevalent in the late 1970s and early 1980s society. These issues are so deeply...

In Spartacus, director Stanley Kubrick and Music Director Alex North utilize sound, including music, sound effects, and dialogue, in historical drama Spartacus to emphasize the types of romance the characters offer. Gladiator and slave revolt...

Masculinity is one of the most prevalent themes in the films of Stanley Kubrick. Kubrick’s films can be viewed as misogynistic, as there is often brutal violence towards women and a considerable lack of prominent or dynamic female characters at...

As we race toward more sophisticated forms of virtual reality, its worth considering the work of Stanley Kubrick. He spent his career probing and solving the questions of immersive storytelling in ways that still remain unique. More than any other...