A critical study of the films of Stanley Kubrick, one of the great
directors of the century.
García Mainar's critical study of the films of the late Stanley Kubrick
includes analysis of all but his last work, Eyes Wide Shut, and offers
both a formal analysis of the films based on style and narrative
pattern, and atheoretical, postmodernist approach to ideas presented in
the films. García Mainar is particularly concerned with analyzing the
relevance of spectacle in Kubrick's films, seeing it as a disruptive
mechanism that can call into question the value and necessity of
communication. He identifies different kinds of spectacle in the films,
and proceeds to a detailed examination of these different forms in 2001
A Space Odyssey, Barry Lyndon, and Full Metal Jacket.
Luis M. García Mainar teaches English at the University of Zaragoza,
Spain.