Stanley Kubrick: A Biography

by John Baxter

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The most complete account yet of one of the most original and stimulating film-makers of the post-war years (and also one of the most reclusive): Paths of Glory, Dr Strangelove, Lolita, 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, The Shining, Barry Lindon, Full Metal Jacket … magnificent, powerful dystopias.

A biography of this pre-eminent cultural figure is long overdue. Few film-makers have managed to maintain their mystique over forty years; Kubrick succeeded by preparing his films for years, so that each distilled the essence of the zeitgeist. To the generation of the 1950s, he was one of the few...

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  • ISBN10 0002555883
  • ISBN13 9780002555883
  • Publish Date 6 October 1997 (first published 26 August 1997)
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 19 February 1999
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
  • Imprint HarperCollins Publishers Ltd