Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange / Edition 1

by Stuart Y. McDougal

Overview

Bringing together new and critically informed essays about one of the most controversial films ever made, this collection of writings examines the literary origins of the work, the nature of cinematic violence, questions of gender and the film's treatment of sexuality, as well as the difficulties of adapting an invented language ("nadsat") for the screen. The volume also includes two contemporary and conflicting reviews by Roger Hughes and Pauline Kael, a detailed glossary of "nadsat" and reproductions of stills from the film.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521574884
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	07/07/2003
Series:	Cambridge Film Handbooks
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	184
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 9.65(h) x 0.47(d)

Table of Contents

Introduction: 'What's it going to be then, eh?': Questioning Kubrick's Clockwork Stuart Y. McDougal; 1. A Clockwork … ticking Robert Kolker; 2. The cultural productions of A Clockwork Orange Janet Staiger; 3. An erotics of violence: masculinity and (homo)sexuality in Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange Margaret DeRosia; 4. Stanley Kubrick and the art cinema Krin Gabbard and Shailja Sharma; 5. 'A bird of like rarest spun heavenmetal': music in A Clockwork Orange Peter J. Rabinowitz; Reviews of A Clockwork Orange, 1972; A Glossary of Nadsat; Filmography.

Editorial Reviews

"Highly recommended. Academic libraries supporting film studies at the lower-division undergraduate level and above." Choice

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