Stanley Kubrick, director of the acclaimed films Path of Glory, Spartacus, Lolita, Dr. Strangelove, 2001: Space Odyssey. A Clockwork Orange, The Shining, and Full Metal Jacket, is arguably one of the greatest American filmmakers. Yet, despite being hailed as “a giant” by Orson Welles, little is known about the reclusive director. Stanley Kubrick —the first full-length study...(展开全部)

If there remains any doubt Kubrick is one of the giants of the cinema of the 20th century cinema, The Stanley Kubrick Archives should dispel it, both through the revelations contained in the director’s own words and in the observations offered by his collaborators and critics. For fans this book will be the ultimate. For those less acquainted with the master filmmaker's work, o...(展开全部)

Born in New York City in 1928, Stanley Kubrick began taking photographs when in high school. At sixteen, he sent a photograph he took of a newsstand after President Roosevelt's death to Look Magazine. The publication of the photograph marked the beginning of Kubrick's work for the magazine, which lasted until 1950, when Kubrick made his first 16mm documentary film. During those...(展开全部)

This is the first book to explore Stanley Kubrick's archives and the most comprehensive study of the filmmaker to date. In 1968, when Stanley Kubrick was asked to comment on the metaphysical significance of "2001: A Space Odyssey", he replied: 'It's not a message I ever intended to convey in words. 2001 is a nonverbal experience...I tried to create a visual experience, one that...(展开全部)

埃米利奥·达利桑德罗（Emilio D'Alessandro），斯坦利·库布里克的贴身助手，陪伴库布里克度过了生命最后的30年，曾是一名赛车手。20世纪60年代末的经济危机使他结束赛车生涯，转行成为一名出租车司机，与库布里克邂逅。库布里克去世后，他回到祖国，现居意大利卡西诺。更多信息，欢迎登陆他的网站 www.emiliodalessandro.com. 菲利普·乌利维耶里（Filippo Ulivieri），意大利作家、编剧、电影理论教师。他是研究斯坦利·库布里克的意大利顶尖专家，曾在多家报纸和杂志发表过有关库布里克生活和电影的文章，并创建了研究库布里克的网站 www.archiviokubrick.it. 他也是纪录片《S代表斯坦利》（S Is For Stanley）的合作编剧之一。

Orlando has always been an outsider...His longing for passion, adventure and fulfilment takes him out of his own time. Chasing a dream through the centuries, he bounds from Elizabethan England amd imperial Turkey to the modern world. Will he find happiness with the exotic Russian Princess Sasha? Or is the dashing explorer Shelmerdine the ideal man? And what form will Orlando ta...(展开全部)

This is the first full-length biography in more than fifty years of Immanuel Kant, one of the giants among the pantheon of Western philosophers, and one of the most powerful and influential in contemporary philosophy. Taking account of the most recent scholarship, Manfred Kuehn allows the reader to follow the same journey that Kant himself took in emerging as a central figure i...(展开全部)

Global thinker, public intellectual and world-famous theorist of ‘liquid modernity’, Zygmunt Bauman (1925-2017) was a scholar who, despite forced migration, built a very successful academic career and, after retirement, became a prolific and popular writer and an intellectual talisman for young people everywhere. He was one of those rare scholars who, grey-haired and in his eig...(展开全部)

'Even the biographical individual is a social category', wrote Adorno. 'It can only be defined in a living context together with others.' In this major new biography, Stefan Muller-Doohm turns this maxim back on Adorno himself and provides a rich and comprehensive account of the life and work of one of the most brilliant minds of the twentieth century. This authoritative biog...(展开全部)