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Stanley Kubrick (1928-1999)

• began his career as a still photographer

• success of Spartacus (1960) gave him artistic control of subsequent films which he made in England

• central themes in his films are [1] man’s attraction to death and [2] the hypocrisy of polite society

Classification of Kubrick’s Films

• war: Paths of Glory (1957), Dr. Strangelove (1963), Barry Lyndon (1975), Full Metal Jacket (1987)

• love: Lolita (1962), Eyes Wide Shut (1999)

• violence: A Clockwork Orange (1971)

• science fiction: 2001: A Space Odyssey

• horror: The Shining (1980)

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