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Stanley Kubrick: Drama & Shadows by Rainer Crone Hardcover   Book Description from Amazon.com Born in New York City in 1928, Stanley Kubrick began taking photographs when in high school. At sixteen, he sent a photograph he took of a newsstand after President Roosevelt’s death to Look Magazine. The publication of the photograph marked the beginning of Kubrick’s work for the magazine, which lasted until 1950, when Kubrick made his first 16mm documentary film. During those five years Kubrick completed dozens of photographic reportage assignments in New York City as well as abroad. The resulting thousands of negatives have remained in the archives of Look Magazine ever since. Kubrick’s photographs vary in subject, but people are the central focus of attention, as is his commitment to narration. Whether capturing the meditative state of passengers in a series of portraits made in the New York subway, following famous boxer Rocky Graziano on the ring and in intimate moments, portraying the coming of age of socialite Betsy Von Fürstenberg, or narrating the tale of a shoe-shine boy in the streets of New York City, Kubrick draws psychological portraits that combine drama, irony, and often mystery, anticipating his trademark cinematic style. If Kubrick’s photographs are fascinating accounts of life in the late 1940s, they are also a major contribution to American photography of that era. At nineteen, Kubrick already had an immense talent in constructing complex compositions in which camera positioning and lighting played a crucial role. The book is introduced by an essay by Rainer Crone, who also edited the selection of photographs for this book. Crone is an expert on Kubrick’s photographic work, and has already published a catalogue on this subject (see Related Titles below). An art historian, he gives context and examines Kubrick’s photographs in relation to not only his later films but also the history of twentieth-century art and photography. Crone also wrote short introductions to most stories in the book. An invaluable contribution to the history of photography, this book explores how one of the most influential and successful film directors of our time used photography to master visual techniques and cultivate his signature style.
The Stanley Kubrick Archives Description from Amazon.com: Part I: The films From the opening sequence of Killer’s Kiss to the final frames of Eyes Wide Shut, Kubrick’s complete films will be presented chronologically and wordlessly via frame enlargements. A completely nonverbal experience. Part II: The archives The second part of the book will present a remarkable collection of material from Kubrick's archives (photographs, props, posters, artwork, set designs, sketches, correspondence, documents, screenplays, drafts, notes, shooting schedules, etc.), bringing to life the creative process of Kubrick’s filmmaking; accompanying the visual material will be essays from noted Kubrick scholars Michel Ciment and Gene Phillips, new interviews with dozens of Kubrick’s collaborators, and a selection of Kubrick’s best interviews. Hardcover + CD + Booklet
Kubrick: The Definitive Edition by Michel Ciment Paperback The new edition of this classic Kubrick book follows his entire film career. Includes a Filmography, discography, and extensive bibliography. The most picture heavy of all Kubrick books it contains hundreds of color and black and white stills and production photos. Kubrick participated actively in this book picking many of the photos himself. The other main attractions are 3 lengthy interviews with Kubrick conducted by the author after the releases of A Clockwork Orange, Barry Lyndon, and The Shining, and a section of written comments made by Kubrick about Full Metal Jacket. The book also contains many more interviews conducted with some of Kubrick's collaborators (see Table of Contents listed below). The book is over 300 pages long and includes a Kubrick biography and several essays by the author. Table of contents: 1) Forward, 2) Eleven Films, 3) Kubrick's Odyssey (Milestones, Standards), 4) Directing, 5) Between Reason and Passion: Reflections on an oeuvre in evolution, 6) Kubrick and the Fantastic (2001: A Space Odyssey, The Shining), 7) Interviews with Stanley Kubrick (A Clockwork Orange, Barry Lyndon, The Shining), 8) Interviews with Collaborators (James B. Harris, Ken Adam, John Alcott, Julian Senior), 9) Full Metal Jacket (Seven Years Later, Order and Disorder, Kubrick on Full Metal Jacket, Interview with Michael Herr), 10) Number 13: Eyes Wide Shut (S.K. 87-99, New York at Dusk, Interview with Fredric Raphael screenwriter, Interview with Les Tompkins production designer, Interview with Marit Allen costume designer), 11) New Interviews (Andrew Birkin assistant, Malcolm McDowell actor, Marisa Berenson actress, Diane Johnson screenwriter, Jack Nicholson actor, Shelley Duvall actress. 12) In Memoriam: Stanley Kubrick. 13) Filmography 14) Bibliography.
Stanley Kubrick Interviews Edited by Gene D. Phillips Paperback Feb. 2001 Excellent book. Kubrick on Kubrick and a wide variety of other subjects. A collection of 16 important, revealing interviews where Kubrick explains it all - his own words and insights being far more interesting than those by people writing about him. The Interviews are: The Hollywood War of Independents; Stanley Kubrick and Dr. Strangelove; Beyond the Stars; Profile: Stanley Kubrick; Playboy Interview: Stanley Kubrick;  A Talk with Stanley Kubrick About 2001;  The Film Director as Superstar: Stanley Kubrick; Mind's Eye: A Clockwork Orange; Kubrick Country; Kubrick's Creative Concern; Modern Times: An Interview with Stanley Kubrick; Stop the World: Stanley Kubrick; Kubrick's Greatest Gamble: Barry Lyndon; Stanley Kubrick's Vietnam War; Candidly Kubrick; The Rolling Stone Interview: Stanley Kubrick.
Stanley Kubrick Director by Alexander Walker Paperback Sept. 1999. Finally, a reissue and update of this classic Kubrick profile. The new edition follows Kubrick's career up to Eyes Wide Shut, the original edition stopped at 2001, the second edition at A Clockwork Orange. Kubrick granted interviews with the author, quotes from which are scattered throughout the text. This new edition contains four parts. PART ONE: From Fear and Desire to A Clockwork Orange. Chapters: 1) Kubrick: Man and Outlook, 2) Style and Content, 3) Paths of Glory 4) Dr. Strangelove, Or How I learned to stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, 5) 2001: A Space Odyssey, 6) A Clockwork Orange. PART TWO: Kubrick's Use of Color. PART THREE: Chapters: Barry Lyndon, The Shining, Full Metal Jacket, Eyes Wide Shut. PART FOUR: Stanley: A Postscript. While there are no single chapters devoted to Kubrick's other films, they are all discussed at some point in the text. Contains a filmography, many films stills, and some behind-the-scenes photos.
The Cinema of Stanley Kubrick by Norman Kagan Paperback Published 2000 This third edition follows Kubrick's films up through Eyes Wide Shut. Includes a Filmography, and many black and white photos of every feature film. Though Kubrick apparently did not participate in this book it does contain some biographical information and anecdotes. The author generally begins each chapter with some brief background material on how the project came about, then provides a re-telling of the film's story, and finishes up with an account of critical reaction to the film and his own observations of common themes found in Kubrick's work which he synopsizes in categories such as: Imaginary Worlds, Futility of Intelligence/ errors of emotions, Homicide-suicides, Murder-suicide pair, Odyssey and obsessed hero, Triumph of obsessive hero, Journey to freedom, etc.
Kubrick: Inside a Film Artist's Maze by Thomas Allen Nelson Paperback Published 2000 This updated edition follows Kubrick's films up through "Eyes Wide Shut." Kubrick did not participate with the author in the making of this book and there is little biographical or anecdotal information, it being mainly an academic interpretation of Kubrick's films.
The Encyclopedia of Stanley Kubrick (Library of Great Filmmakers) by Rodney Hill, Gene D. Phillips Paperback July 2002 Exactly as titled, a single volume reference encyclopedia on Kubrick's life and work listing entries in alphabetical order. From A (Adam, Ken) to Y (Youngblood, Gene). There are entries for most of the casts and crew Kubrick has worked with and to give you an idea of the scope of this book, other entries include Dolby Laboratories, The Chieftains, censorship, The Blue Danube, antiwar themes, HAL 9000, horror "old dark house" subgenre, homosexual subtexts, Seafarers International Union, science fiction, Steadicam, etc. A number of black and white photos not published elsewhere. 422 pages.
The Wolf at the Door: Stanley Kubrick, History, and the Holocaust by Geoffrey Cocks Paperback August 2004 Description from Amazon site: The Wolf at the Door explores the remarkable formal and substantive patterns of cinematic discourse on Germany and the Holocaust in Stanley Kubrick's films. It is the first book on Kubrick to place his cinema into the full context of his life and times-his Jewish past, early years spent under the shadows of fascism and war, and his 1957 marriage into a German family of artists and filmmakers-all provoked his deeply ambivalent preoccupation with the history of Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. While personal and artistic reservations caused Kubrick to abandon several plans for a film on the Holocaust, this preoccupation combined with related cultural discourses in the 1970s, and culminated in a curiously indirect but compelling Holocaust subtext in his 1980 horror film, The Shining. The Wolf at the Door draws on intensive study of all of Kubrick's films, interviews with members of Kubrick's immediate family, and archival research in the United States, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, and Israel.
Stanley Kubrick by Paul Duncan
Narrative and Stylistic Patterns in the Films of Stanley Kubrick (European Studies in American Literature and Culture) by Luis. M. Garcia Mainar
Stanley Kubrick A Film Odyssey by Gene D. Phillips
Perspectives on Stanley Kubrick (Perspectives on Film) by Mario Falsetto (Editor), Geduld (Not currently available)
Stanley Kubrick : A Narrative and Stylistic Analysis (Contributions to the Study of Popular Culture, No 39) by Mario Falsetto	Amazon Kindle Edition
The Films of Stanley Kubrick by Daniel. De Vries Published 1974 (Hard to Find) Follows Kubrick's films up through A Clockwork Orange.
Stanley Kubrick Companion by James Howard Published September 1999
Stanley Kubrick: a Guide to References and Resources by Wallace Coyle Published 1982 (Hard to Find) This contains no real information about his work but is an index of books and other sources of information about the director and his works.
A Cinema of Lonliness : Penn, Kubrick, Scorsese, Spielberg, Altman by Robert Phillip Kolker Paperback
Stanley Kubrick: 7 Films Analyzed by Randy Rassmussen Library Binding February 2001 This book is described as an intensive, scene-by-scene analysis of Kubrick's most mature work-seven meticulously wrought films from Dr. Strangelove to Eyes Wide Shut. 368 pages.
The Complete Kubrick by David Hughes Paperback September 2001 Foreword by Peter Bogdanovich. Part of the Virgin Complete Directors series, a step-by-step companion to the work of the director. 303 pages.
Stanley Kubrick by Paul Duncan Paperback September 1999 96 pages.
Stanley Kubrick Companion by James Howard

Individual Film Studies

Biographies

Stanley Kubrick: A Biography by Vincent Lobrutto Paperback Published April, 1999 Follows Kubrick's films up through Full Metal Jacket. This hefty 579 page hardcover is the first true biography of Kubrick, complete with accounts of his childhood, though all of the information is secondhand as Kubrick did not participate in the making of this book. Still an exhaustive work with many anecdotes about Kubrick and the making of his films. Some rare photos of Kubrick as a youth, his first 2 wives, his father.
Stanley Kubrick: A Biography by John Baxter Paperback Published 1997 Follows Kubrick's films up through Full Metal Jacket and touches on Eyes Wide Shut, AI, and Wartime Lies. As with the above biography, all of the information is secondhand as Kubrick did not participate in the making of this book. Does contain many details about the making of films and some pictures not found in other books. Sets out to demythologize Kubrick and tends to be cynical in tone. 399 pages long with a good number of black and white photos, complete filmography, and bibliography. Many feel this book is a deliberate hatchet job on Kubrick.

 

 

Memoirs

Full Metal Jacket Diaries By Matthew Modine To be released October 25th, 2005 in the USA.
Stanley Kubrick A Life In Pictures by Christiane Kubrick Hardcover Over 200 images from film, photographs, and paintings and text by Kubrick's wife of 42 years, offer a unique perspective on the man.
Moonwatcher's Memoir - A Diary of 2001: A Space Odyssey by Dan Richter Paperback Published September 2002 This may be a first. I am unaware of any other film book devoted to only a segment of a film, but what a segment it is - The Dawn of Man.  The opening 18 minutes of 2001: A Space Odyssey  has gotten short shrift in other books about the film which focus mainly on the effects work in the other 120 minutes of the classic, but Daniel Richter, the mime who played the principal man-ape in the sequence, here recounts his experiences working on the film as actor and choreographer. Moonwatcher's Memoir is a fascinating account of the months of research and preparation that went into creating  the realistic details of the man-apes' appearance, movement, and characterizations, and overcoming the problems of human physiology, inexpressive costumes and makeup, inhospitable locations, sets and special effects solutions. A nice selection of approximately 60 black and white photos. 156 pages long. Foreword by Arthur C. Clarke. Chapter titles: My First Meeting with Stanley Kubrick, Stanley Kubrick University; A Visit from Arthur Clarke; Getting Started; Keith Hamshere; An American Mine in London; It Won't Hurt A Bit; Australopithecene; George Schaller and Jane Goodall; A Shooting Script At Last; Andrew Birkin; Gibbons in Slow Motion; My Roomate Nancy the Monkey; Guy; Thin Boys Need Only Apply; Moonwatcher Rises from the Plaster and Urethane; A Cattle Call at Covent Garden; Industrial Espionage - Who Stole Moonwatcher's Mask and Hands?; Training the Dancers to become Man-Apes; Hard Decisions; Baby Chimps and the Strike; Stage 3; The Waterhole; The Cave and the Monolith; Moonwatcher has an Idea and an Ape Becomes a Man; The Search for Slower Motion as Stanley Focuses on the Throw; Sounds, The Stargate, and the Polka-Dot Alien; That's All There Is, There Isn't Any More.
Kubrick by Michael Herr Paperback Published June 2000 The co-author of the Full Metal Jacket screenplay relates his 19 year friendship with Kubrick. Herr's lengthy Vanity Fair article on Kubrick is considered by many the best recollection of the man since his passing.
Eyes Wide Open: A Memoir of Stanley Kubrick By Frederic Raphael Paperback Published July1999 The co-author of the Eyes Wide Shut screenplay relates his relatively brief working relationship with Kubrick in adapting the novella Dream Story. This book has been dismissed as inaccurate by the Kubrick family.

The Novels

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Clean Break by Lionel White The basis of Kubrick's film The Killing. The Kindle edition is renamed The Killing.		Amazon Kindle Edition
Paths of Glory by Humphrey Cobb		Amazon Kindle Edition
Spartacus by Howard Fast
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov	Audio book read by Jeremy Irons
Red Alert by Peter George This is the original 1959 dramatic novel that was the basis for Kubrick's comedic film. The author later wrote an alternate version titled Dr. Strangelove which was a novelization of Kubrick's film. Long out of print this book in now available in both paperback and Amazon Kindle e-book editions.		Paperback Amazon Kindle Edition
2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke Clarke's novel version of the screenplay he developed in collaboration with Kubrick.		Mass Market paperback
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackery		Amazon Kindle Edition
The Shining by Stephen King
The Short-Timers by Gustav Hasford This novel was the basis for Full Metal Jacket.
Dream Story (Traumnovelle) by Arthur Schnitzler This edition has been re-titled Eyes Wide Shut after Kubrick's film. Eyes Wide Shut Movie tie-in book includes both the screenplay and the original  Dream Story which inspired it.

 

 

The Screenplays

Nabokov's Original Screenplay   This version of the screenplay was later revised by Kubrick and Harris for the film.
Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange by Stanley Kubrick based on the novel by Anthony Burgess Reprint of the seminal illustrated screenplay book published long before the introduction of home video recorders. 800 black and white still images, selected by Kubrick, represent every shot in the film with accompanying dialogue underneath. 340 pages. From Kubrick's introduction: May 22, 1972 "I have always wondered if there might be a more meaningful way to present a book about a film. To make, as it were, a complete graphic representation of the film, cut by cut, with the dialogue printed in the proper place in relation to the cuts, so that within the limits of still photos and words, an accurate (and I hope interesting) record of a film might be available. This book represents that attempt."
Full Metal Jacket by Stanley Kubrick, Michael Herr, Gustav Hasford Illustrated with stills from the film, this trade paperback is a transcript of the finished film, not a shooting script. Foreword by Michael Herr.
Eyes Wide Shut by Stanley Kubrick and Frederic Raphael This book includes both the screenplay and the original  Dream Story which inspired it.

 

 

Christiane Kubrick

Christiane Kubrick Paintings by Christiane Kubrick Hardcover Published 1990 Stanley Kubrick's wife is a painter and this is a collection of her works. Also available directly from Christiane Kubrick's web site at lower price but by cheque only.

 

 

 

Miscellaneous

MAD About the Sixties Editors of Mad Magazine / Paperback / 1995 Contains cartoon parody of 2001 called 201 Minutes Of A Space Idiocy.
MAD About the Movies Nick Meglin (Editor), John Ficarra (Editor) / Paperback / 1998 Contains cartoon parodies of A Clockwork Orange (A Crockwork Lemon), and The Shining (The Shiner).

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