2001: A Space Odyssey confirmed Arthur C. Clarke's reputation as one of the best-known and most influential science fiction writers ever. The book and the 1968 movie are icons of the modern age. Now comes a special trade paperback edition, with a new introduction by the author which sheds light on the powerful synergy between the book and the movie.
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The Making of 2001 Paperback
This innovative history is the most complete production notebook of "2001: A Space Odyssey" to date--from the inception of the idea in the early 1960s, to the long years on the set. From the Publisher: Provides behind-the-scenes information on the 1969 film directed by Stanley Kubrick.Provides behind-the-scenes information on the 1969 film directed by Stanley Kubrick.
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MGM is turning to real-estate parcels all around us, and that night I am facing Stanley Kubrick across the hood of a rented car in Culver City, and he is smiling at me, a little anxiously and still very proudly, and he is saying, "Yes, but did you like it?"
He means 2001. We have just seen it for the first time, he and I and perhaps a dozen others, in the cavernous studio screening room. Stanley''s wife, Christiane, is with us. His attorney; the president of Cinerama; the film''s editor, Ray Lovejoy, and a few others are also at the screening, but I am the only pair of fresh, disinterested eyes there.
I am also, by at least two decades, the youngest member of the audience, an unelected representative of a generation that will eventually rescue this great film from critical infamy and claim it for its own. (Click the title link for the complete chapter sample)
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Stanley Kubrick's 2001 Paperback
Almost all students have seen 2001, but virtually none understand its inheritance, its complexities, and certainly not its ironies. The essays in this collection, commissioned from a wide variety of scholars, examine in detail various possible readings of the film and its historical context.
They also examine the film as a genre piece--as the summa of science fiction that simultaneously looks back on the science fiction conventions of the past (Kubrick began thinking of making a science fiction film during the genre's heyday in the fifties), rethinks the convention in light of the time of the film's creation, and in turn changes the look and meaning of the genre that it revived--which now remains as prominent as it was almost four decades ago.
Constructed out of its director's particular intellectual curiosity, his visual style, and his particular notions of the place of human agency in the world and, in this case, the universe, 2001 is, like all of his films, more than it appears, and it keeps revealing more the more it is seen. Though their backgrounds and disciplines differ, the authors of this essay collection are united by a talent for vigorous yet incisive writing that cleaves closely to the text--to the film itself, with its contextual and intrinsic complexities--granting readers privileged access to Kubrick's formidable, intricate classic work of science fiction.
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