Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange

Brings together critically informed essays about one of the most controversial films ever made.

Stuart Y. McDougal (Edited by)

9780521573764, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 7 July 2003

184 pages, 19 b/w illus.
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.4 cm, 0.44 kg

"Highly recommended. Academic libraries supporting film studies at the lower-division undergraduate level and above." Choice

Stanley Kubrick's 'A Clockwork Orange' brings together critically informed essays about one of the most powerful, important and controversial films ever made. Following an introduction that provides an overview of the film and its production history, a suite of essays examine the literary origins of the work, the nature of cinematic violence, questions of gender and the film's treatment of sexuality, and the difficulties of adapting an invented language ('nadsat') for the screen. This volume also includes two contemporary and conflicting reviews by Roger Hughes and Pauline Kael, a detailed glossary of 'nadsat' and stills from the film.

Introduction: 'What's it going to be then, eh?': Questioning Kubrick's Clockwork Stuart Y. McDougal
1. A Clockwork … ticking Robert Kolker
2. The cultural productions of A Clockwork Orange Janet Staiger
3. An erotics of violence: masculinity and (homo)sexuality in Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange Margaret DeRosia
4. Stanley Kubrick and the art cinema Krin Gabbard and Shailja Sharma
5. 'A bird of like rarest spun heavenmetal': music in A Clockwork Orange Peter J. Rabinowitz
Reviews of A Clockwork Orange, 1972
A Glossary of Nadsat
Filmography.

Subject Areas: Individual film directors, film-makers [APFB], Film theory & criticism [APFA]