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: Elucidation and Enlightenment Through Music in Eyes Wide Shut, Marie Bennett

PART THREE: RECEPTION

Framing Eye Wide Shut as a Late-90s ‘Quality’ Blockbuster: Authorship and Stardom in Kubrick’s Final Film, Eddie Falvey

A cloaked and masked film: some things Eyes Wide Shut may (really) be about, Jeremi Szaniawski

Eyes Wide Shut: A Cult Film?, Matt Melia

Afterword, Robert P. Kolker

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About the Author

Nathan Abrams is Professor of Film at Bangor University and a founding member of the Stanley Kubrick Network. He has written widely and extensively on Kubrick (as well as film in general). His previous publications include, Stanley Kubrick: Jewish Intellectual (Rutgers UP) and, with Robert Kolker, Eyes Wide Shut: Stanley Kubrick and the Making of His Final Film (OUP, 2019). He also edited the Bloomsbury Companion to Stanley Kubrick (2021) with IQ Hunter and is currently writing a biography of Kubrick to be published by Faber & Faber in 2024. Georgina Orgill is Senior Archivist at The Stanley Kubrick Archive. She has previously contributed to the Bloomsbury Companion to Stanley Kubrick (2021), co-edited a volume on A Clockwork Orange, and written on archival cataloguing and access for the teaching and learning journal SPARK (2019).

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