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Stanley Kubrick's <I>A Clockwork Orange</I>
  • Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange
  • Edited by Stuart Y. McDougal
  • Published online: 29 January 2010
  • Print publication: 07 July 2003
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    Stanley Kubrick's 'A Clockwork Orange' brings together critically informed essays about one of the most powerful, important and controversial films ever made. Following an introduction that provides an overview of the film and its production history, a suite of essays examine the literary origins of the work, the nature of cinematic violence, questions of gender and the film's treatment of sexuality, and the difficulties of adapting an invented language ('nadsat') for the screen. This volume also includes two contemporary and conflicting reviews by Roger Hughes and Pauline Kael, a detailed glossary of 'nadsat' and stills from the film.
  • Introduction: “What's it going to be then, eh?”: Questioning Kubrick's Clockwork
  • Edited by Stuart Y. McDougal, Macalester College, Minnesota
  • Book: Stanley Kubrick's <I>A Clockwork Orange</I>
  • Published online: 29 January 2010
  • Print publication: 07 July 2003, pp 1-18
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    Summary

    On March 7, 1999, Stanley Kubrick died at his home outside of London after nearly completing the editing of his final film, Eyes Wide Shut. He was seventy years old and had lived a rather reclusive existence in England since 1974. Eyes Wide Shut, starring Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, was his first film in over a decade. Following several years of planning, the actual filming had occupied Kubrick and his stars for more than 15 months. Much fanfare accompanied its release in the summer of 1999 (Cruise and Kidman were on the July 5th cover of Time magazine), but the critical response was decidedly mixed, with some critics viewing it as a “haunting, final masterpiece” and others as a disappointment. Although Kubrick had prepared a final cut of the film before his death, the studio redefined the meaning of “final cut” by adding digitalized figures optically to obscure the explicit sexual activity of one of the film's central scenes before releasing the film in America. Kubrick's brilliant career ended with controversy and debate – characteristics that had marked his output at least since the release of Lolita (1962). Why did Kubrick's films – so varied and diverse – engender such heated discussion? Few directors of his stature have produced films that have consistently provoked so much controversy.

    Stanley Kubrick began as a staff photographer for Look magazine at the age of seventeen. In part because of an indifferent high school record, Kubrick chose not to attend college.