Eyes Wide Shut: Behind Stanley Kubrick's Masterpiece [Hardcover]

A fascinating and insightful range of essays from different perspectives reassessing Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut, its reception and legacy, twenty years after its initial release. It also features a contribution from someone who worked on the film.Twenty years after its release, Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut remains a complex, visually arresting film about marriage, jealousy, domesticity, adultery, sexual disturbance, and dreams. This was the final enigmatic work from its equally enigmatic creator. It has left an indelible mark on our popular culture and remains as relevant as ever. Much maligned and much misunderstood when it first came out, Eyes Wide Shut has since been the subject of an animated debate and discussion among critics, fans and academics. It has been explored from a wide variety of disciplines and methodological perspectives. This collection brings scholars from diverse disciplinary backgrounds together with those who worked on the film to explore Eyes Wide Shut's legacy, discuss its impact, and consider its position within Kubrick's oeuvre and the wider visual and socio-political culture.List of illustrations

Notes on contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction, Nathan Abrams and Georgina Orgill

PART ONE: PRODUCTION

'Infidelity troubled him deeply': A journey to the root of Eyes Wide Shut, Filippo Ulivieri

A Choreographic Liaison: Collaborating with Stanley Kubrick on the Masked Ball for Eyes Wide Shut, Yolande Snaith

Stanley Kubrick's last film and the question of authorship, Manca Perko

PART TWO: THE FILM

'If You Men Only Knew': Stanley Kubrick's Failed Attempt to Explore Female Sexuality in Eyes Wide Shut, Catriona M. McAvoy and Karen A. Ritzenhoff

What about the daughters? Parenthood in Eyes Wide Shut, Joy McEntee

'Lucky to Be Alive': Clockwork Models and the Logic of the Inanimate in Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut, Ohad Landesman

Eyes Re-opened: Elucidalã¶