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Kubrick’s correspondence – Mick Broderick (Tuesday 16 July 2019)

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Michael (Mick) Broderick is Associate Professor of Media Analysis at  Murdoch  University, Western Australia. A specialist in nuclear culture, the apocalyptic and the mediation of trauma, he is author-producer of over 100 scholarly works including research monographs, journal articles, book chapters, curated exhibitions, art instalations and digital media productions. His major publications realting to Stanley Kubrick include The Kubrick Legacy (2019),  Reconstructing Strangelove: Inside Stanley Kubrick’s ‘nightmare comedy’  (2017) and the "Post-Kubrick" dossier for Screening the Past  (2017). Mick Broderick can be contacted via email: M.Broderick@murdoch.edu.au URL: http://profiles.murdoch.edu.au/myprofile/michael-broderick/ Mick Broderick during his pannel on Kubrick's Correspondence. Photo by Karen Ritzenhoff. Presentation:   On 26 th  of June 2019 in preparation for his presentation  Mick Broderick  asked that each workshop participant send me "

Reception -- Jeremi Szaniawski (Wednesday 17 July 2019)

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Jeremi Szaniawski is the editor  of After Kubrick A Filmmaker's Legacy (Bloomsbury, 2020). He has alos published on Kubrick in Senses of  of Cinema, including the article After Kubrick (1927-1999) : a Cinematic Legacy ( 2019),  as well as interview with    Gaspar Noé  entitled “ The absolute and ultimate manifestation of the power of the mind over technology ”: Gaspar Noé  talks 2001: A Space Odyssey (2018). He is the Amesbury Professor at UMass Amherst, Massachusetts, and also teaches at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, in the Department of Information and Communication Studies.  [3] He can be reached via his LinkedIn:  https://be.linkedin.com/in/jeremiszaniawski . Jeremi Szaniawski attending the Workshop dinner at Katwijk. Photo by Karen Ritzenhoff. Presentation: Jeremi Szaniawski presented on Kubrick’s reception and “afterlife.”  Firstly, we can consider Kubrick’s afterlife in the context of his immediate reception by film critics. Contrary to the popul

Kubrick database -- Elisa Pezzotta (Friday 19 July 2019)

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Elisa Pezzotta, Ph.D. Cultore della materia University of Bergamo (Italy). Section editor of  Cinergie ,  https://cinergie.unibo.it/ . She is the author of the book  Stanley Kubrick: Adapting the Sublime . She published articles and co-edited special issues about Kubrickian studies,  namely: Slowness and Time Expanision in Long Takes:2001 A Spacey Odyssey, Barry Lyndon and Eyes Wide Shut, , Stanley Kubrick: A Retrospective: Introduction and  The Stanley Kubrick Archive: A Dossier of New Research in 2017.  The Magic of Time in Lolita: The Time Traveller Humbert Humbert in 2015 and  The metaphor of dance in Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange and Full Metal Jacket in 2012. She has presented conferences on Kubrick as well. She presented Translating Terror in Kubrick's The Shining  and   A Ballet of Violence in A Clockwork Orange .  Elisa Pezzotta specializes in adaptation studies, and the represenation and perception of time in films. [1] Elisa Pe

Archival approaches – Robert Kolker (Monday 15 July 2019)

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Robert P. Kolker is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Maryland. He has written numerous articles and monographs on Kubrick including A Cinema of Loneliness (2011), The Extraordinary Image: Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, and the Reimagining of Cinema (2016) and, most recently, Eyes Wide Shut: Stanley Kubrick and the Making of His Final Film (2019), co-authored with Nathan Abrams. [1] Robert P. Kolker can be contacted via email: rkolker@umd.edu. Photo of  Robert P. Kolker delivering his presentation. Photo  taken by Karen Ritzenhoff.  Presentation: Robert Kolker presented on archival approaches, specifically the use of the Stanley Kubrick Archive at UCA, London. The Archive was opened in 2007. It contains an astonishing amount of material about Kubrick’s life and the production of his films, collected by Kubrick himself. Robert’s presentation considered both the scholarly use of the Archive in the last decade and the future of archiva

Art historical approaches – Dijana Metlic (Monday 15 July 2019)

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Dijana Metlic is the author of many Stanley Kubrick related articles. Among them are: Stanley Kubrick and Hieronymus Bosch: In The Garden of Earthly Delights,   Unmasking the Society: The Use of Masks in Kubrick's Films, Kubrick's approach to Burgess: The significance of costume in A Clockwork Orange, Nabokov, Kubrick and Stern: Who Created Lolita?  She is currenlty an Associate Professor of Art History at the Academy of Arts, in the University of Novi Sad, Serbia. [8] Dijana Meltic can be contacted via email: dijana.metlic@uns.ac.rs Dijana Meltic presenting on Art historical approaches. Photo by Karen Ritzenhoff. Presentation:  Dijana Metlic presented on art historical approaches. Dr. Metlic suggested that art history is an important lens through which we should be able to understand Kubrick’s films better. She identified several research topics that would benefit from art historical approaches. Composition, colour and lighting: Kubrick’s c