Nathan Abrams on Kubrick
Monday 6th May
Topping & Company Booksellers of Edinburgh, 2 Blenheim Place, Edinburgh EH7 5JH
7.10pm
7.30pm
Everyone knows the name Stanley Kubrick, but how many of us know the man behind the camera? Enigmatic, aloof, and heralded as a cinematic genius, Kubrick gave the world 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, Full Metal Jacket, Dr. Strangelove, and The Shining. His persona remains a point of interest among fans and academics alike.
We're delighted, then, to welcome Nathan Abrams - co-author of Faber's Kubrick: A Cinematic Odyssey - to tell us all about Kubrick. Perhaps he can help us tease fact from fiction, myth from reality. We hope you'll join is!
Kubrick: A Cinematic Odyssey
The enigmatic and elusive filmmaker Stanley Kubrick has not been treated to a full-length biography in over twenty years. Stanley Kubrick: An Odyssey fills that gap. It is based on access to the latest research, especially into his archive at the University of the Arts, London, and other papers as well as new interviews with family members and those who worked with him. It offers comprehensive and in-depth coverage of Kubrick's personal, private, public, and working life. We discuss not only the making of his films, but also about those he wanted but failed to make like Burning Secret, Napoleon, Aryan Papers, and A.I. We discover what he was doing when he was not making films. This biography will puncture a few myths about this allegedly reclusive filmmaker, who created some of the most important works of art of the twentieth century.
About Nathan Abrams
Nathan Abrams was educated at Oxford and Birmingham Universities, earning a PhD in American Studies. After teaching at various institutions across the UK, he is currently a Professor of Film at Bangor University in Wales. where he lives with his two children and two dogs. Abrams is the author/editor of many books, most recently Stanley Kubrick: New York Jewish Intellectual (2018), Eyes Wide Shut: Stanley Kubrick and the Making of his Final Film with Robert Kolker(2019), and The Bloomsbury Companion to Stanley Kubrick with IQ Hunter (2021).