Stanley Kubrick, Life and Legacy

Kate McQuiston is a Professor of Music. She the author of the book “We’ll Meet Again”: Musical Design in the Films of Stanley Kubrick . Her research on music and film focuses on stylistic composing for film, the usage of preexisting music in film, musical quotation, and sound design. She held a conversation with actor Keir Dullea before the San Francisco Symphony performance of 2001: A Space Odyssey. In the last few years s he has contributed articles to Literature/Film Quarterly , The Routledge Companion to Screen Music and Sound  and, most recently, "Brian Wilson Reimagined: The Reparative Portait in Love & Mercy ," in the Journal of the Society for American Music . Her wide-ranging interview of sound designer, Richard Beggs, will soon appear in the journal,  Music and the Moving Image, just in time for the 40th anniversary of one of Beggs's first big projects,  Apocalypse Now .” [4]  Kate McQuiston can be contacted via: email mcquisto@hawaii.ed...

Nathan Abrams is a Professor in Film at Bangor University. He has systematically published on Stanley Kubrick over the last thirteen years. ·         In the year of 2006, Nathan Abrams wrote: Stanley Kubrick, the Holocaust and History. ·         In 2012 he wrote: "A double set of glasses": Stanley Kubrick and the midrashic mode of interpretation and Sub-epidermic Jewishness’: Stanley Kubrick’s Mythical Movie Jews. ·         In 2013: Kubrick’s Double: Lolita’s Hidden Heart of Jewishness and Lolita’s Hidden Heart of Jewishness. ·         In 2014: The Banality of Evil: Polanski, Kubrick, and the Reinvention of Horror, 'Dr. Strangelove’ and the Jewish question, The Myth of Tyranny: Stanley Kubrick's Working Practices, An Alternative New York Intellectual: Stanley Kubrick’s Cultural Critique, A Hidden Heart of Jewishness and Englishness: S...

Dr. Joy McEntee is a professor at the School of Humanities, Faculty of Arts, at the University of Adelaide. She has written on Kubrick’s work namely: The end of family in Kubrick’s a clockwork orange. (2015) Paternal responsibility and bad conscience in adaptations of The Shining. (2016) She has taught multiple courses on film and literature namely: Adaptation, Fleshpot: American Film Melodrama, Hollywood or Bust! and American Gothic. She is enthusiastic about pedagogy and has been awarded six prizes. She was bestowed a total of 160,000 to coordinate projects for the betterment of eLearning. [1,2] Dr. Joy McEntee  can be contacted via email:  joy . mc e ntee@ a d e laide . edu . a u   Dr. Joy McEntee presenting on Kubrick's early works . Photo by Karen Ritzenhoff. Presentation:  Dr. Joy McEntee presented on Kubrick’s early films. She began addressing them chronologically describing exactly what films she meant when s...

Filippo Ulivieri is the author of the book Stanley Kubrick and Me . He has also written Kubrick's unmade films , Two adroit, perceptive, delicately attuned people: the clash between Stanley Kubrick and Marlon Brando, Waiting for a miracle: a survey of Stanley Kubrick’s unrealized projects, Writing and rewriting Kubrick: or, how I learned to stop worrying about the Kubrickian memoirs and love Emilio D’Alessandro, and A Cat Odyssey.  He coauthored Kubrick e Clarke, storia inedita del film tra genio e ripicche and wrote many more articles on Kubrick in Italian including: 1964-1968: l'Odissea di Kubrick, Ecco la vera storia del "Bruciante segreto" di Stanley Kubrick, From “boy genius” to “barking loon”: an analysis of Stanley Kubrick’s mythology, Kubrick e Clarke, storia inedita del film tra genio e ripicche. He also runs the Italian website Archivo Kubrick: archiviokubrick.it/ak/crediti/index.html [1,2] Filippo Ulivieri can be contacted via: twitter @nessuno2...

Pedagogy became a recurrent theme over the course of the workshop, so a session was dedicated to it on Friday morning. This took the form of a led discussion. James Fenwick asked the participants why they teach Kubrick. Daisy Baxter, a literature student, commented that her teacher chose Kubrick’s films because they lend themselves to textual analysis. Kubrick’s work is also a gateway to film studies in general. Kubrick is also a gateway into teaching more complex ideas, e.g. Nietzsche. His films still have resonance today, especially on the themes of environmentalism and violence. Nathan Abrams chose him for a course on Auteurs because his twelve films fitted neatly into a teaching semester.   Jeremi Szaniawski discussed the idea of Kubrick as a “bad object” for film studies, especially in the US. Kubrick’s status as a great white male, his violence and perceived misogyny and the subject matter (especially rape) require that his films are accompanied by trigger warnings, o...