Stanley Kubrick's 2001: a Space Odyssey New Essays |
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| Editor:
| Kolker, Robert |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-972436-9 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2006 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $33.68 |
Book Description:
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Though Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey boasts a large and ever-expanding fan-base, there are few among even the most avid enthusiasts that fully understand the film's inheritance, complexities, and ironies. The essays in this collection, newly commissioned from a wide variety of scholars for this volume, examine in detail various possible readings of the film, its historical context, and its status as a quintessential science-fiction genre piece.
Though Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey boasts a large and ever-expanding fan-base, there are few among even the most avid enthusiasts that fully understand the film's inheritance, complexities, and ironies. The essays in this collection, newly commissioned from a wide variety of scholars for this volume, examine in detail various possible readings of the film, its historical context, and its status as a quintessential science-fiction genre piece.