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Stanley Kubrick : American filmmaker / David Mikics.

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by Mikics, David, 1961- author.
Call Number 791.430233092 23
Publication Date 2020
Summary An engrossing biography of one of the most influential filmmakers in cinematic history Kubrick grew up in the Bronx, a doctor's son. From a young age he was consumed by photography, chess, and, above all else, movies. He was a self taught filmmaker and self-proclaimed outsider, and his films exist in a unique world of their own outside the Hollywood mainstream. Kubrick's Jewishness played a crucial role in his idea of himself as an outsider. Obsessed with rebellion against authority, war, and male violence, Kubrick was himself a calm, coolly masterful creator and a talkative, ever curious polymath immersed in friends and family. Drawing on interviews and new archival material, Mikics for the first time explores the personal side of Kubrick's films.
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Race in American film : voices and visions that shaped a nation / Daniel Bernardi and Michael Green, editors.

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by Bernardi, Daniel, 1964- editor.
Call Number 791.43652996073 23
Publication Date 2017
Summary This set investigates racial representation in film, providing an authoritative cross-section of the most racially significant films, actors , directors, and movements in American cinematic history.
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Projected art history : biopics, celebrity culture, and the popularizing of American art / Doris Berger ; [translated from German to English by Brigitte Pichon and Dorian Rudnytsky].

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by Berger, Doris, 1972- author.
Call Number 791.43657 23
Publication Date 2014
Summary "Biopics on artists have an enormous effect on the popular understanding of what it means to be an artist. Projected Art History highlights the narrative structure and images created in the film genre of biopics, in which the artist's life is being dramatized and embodied by an actor. Doris Berger bridges a gap between art history, film studies and popular culture by investigating how the film genre of biopics adapts written biographies and projects art history for a mass audience. Berger offers an analytical approach by concentrating on the two case studies Basquiat (1996) and Pollock (2000), but also looks at larger issues at play, such as how postwar American art history is being mediated in a popular format such as the biopic. This is the first book to identify the functionality of the biopic film genre and showcase its implication for a popular art history that is projected on the big screen"-- "Examines the biopics of two artists in order to represent and project a form of art history for a mass audience"--
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