Elsa Colombani received her PhD from the University of Paris Nanterre and currently works as an independent scholar.

A smart, erudite collection of essays, this Critical Companion not only serves as an introduction to Kubrick but also shows how many new and intriguing things can be said about him. It will sharpen our understanding of one of the cinema's most widely discussed directors.

• Part I. Bending Genres1. Mental Landscapes and Subdued Bodies in Killer’s Kiss – Vincent Jaunas2. Burning Down the House in Kubrick’s The Shining – Anne-Marie Paquet-Deyris3. Kubrick’s Gangster Artistry: Contradiction and Hybridity in The Killing – Carol Donelan4. Adapting Lolita: Hybridizing and Subverting Genre Conventions – Gilles Menegaldo5. History by Candlelight: How Stanley Kubrick Revolutionized Depictions of the Past on Film – Sean O’Reilly6. Intertextuality, Distortion and Echoes of World War II in Stanley Kubrick’s War Films – Guillaume MouleuxPart II. Master of Chaos and Transgression7. The Philosophy of War in Dr. Strangelove – Jerold J. Abrams8. Stanley Kubrick and the Cinema of Chaos: The Theater of War – William Gombash9. Joker’s Ideological Becoming: The Limits of Irony in Full Metal Jacket – James R. Britton10. “Violence is a Very Horrible Thing”: Brechtian Alienation Effect in Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange – Madison Mae Williams11. Reading Reality in A Clockwork

Elsa Colombani received her PhD from the University of Paris Nanterre and currently works as an independent scholar.

A smart, erudite collection of essays, this Critical Companion not only serves as an introduction to Kubrick but also shows how many new and intriguing things can be said about him. It will sharpen our understanding of one of the cinema's most widely discussed directors.

• Part I. Bending Genres1. Mental Landscapes and Subdued Bodies in Killer’s Kiss – Vincent Jaunas2. Burning Down the House in Kubrick’s The Shining – Anne-Marie Paquet-Deyris3. Kubrick’s Gangster Artistry: Contradiction and Hybridity in The Killing – Carol Donelan4. Adapting Lolita: Hybridizing and Subverting Genre Conventions – Gilles Menegaldo5. History by Candlelight: How Stanley Kubrick Revolutionized Depictions of the Past on Film – Sean O’Reilly6. Intertextuality, Distortion and Echoes of World War II in Stanley Kubrick’s War Films – Guillaume MouleuxPart II. Master of Chaos and Transgression7. The Philosophy of War in Dr. Strangelove – Jerold J. Abrams8. Stanley Kubrick and the Cinema of Chaos: The Theater of War – William Gombash9. Joker’s Ideological Becoming: The Limits of Irony in Full Metal Jacket – James R. Britton10. “Violence is a Very Horrible Thing”: Brechtian Alienation Effect in Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange – Madison Mae Williams11. Reading Reality in A Clockwork

Elsa Colombani received her PhD from the University of Paris Nanterre and currently works as an independent scholar.

A smart, erudite collection of essays, this Critical Companion not only serves as an introduction to Kubrick but also shows how many new and intriguing things can be said about him. It will sharpen our understanding of one of the cinema's most widely discussed directors.

• Part I. Bending Genres1. Mental Landscapes and Subdued Bodies in Killer’s Kiss – Vincent Jaunas2. Burning Down the House in Kubrick’s The Shining – Anne-Marie Paquet-Deyris3. Kubrick’s Gangster Artistry: Contradiction and Hybridity in The Killing – Carol Donelan4. Adapting Lolita: Hybridizing and Subverting Genre Conventions – Gilles Menegaldo5. History by Candlelight: How Stanley Kubrick Revolutionized Depictions of the Past on Film – Sean O’Reilly6. Intertextuality, Distortion and Echoes of World War II in Stanley Kubrick’s War Films – Guillaume MouleuxPart II. Master of Chaos and Transgression7. The Philosophy of War in Dr. Strangelove – Jerold J. Abrams8. Stanley Kubrick and the Cinema of Chaos: The Theater of War – William Gombash9. Joker’s Ideological Becoming: The Limits of Irony in Full Metal Jacket – James R. Britton10. “Violence is a Very Horrible Thing”: Brechtian Alienation Effect in Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange – Madison Mae Williams11. Reading Reality in A Clockwork