Kubrick's Mitteleuropa

Nathan Abrams is a professor of film, as well as thelead director for the Centre for Film, Television and Screen Studiesat Bangor University in Wales.He is a founding co-editor of Jewish Film and New Media: An International Journal, and his most recent books include Kubrick: An Odyssey (Pegasus Books, 2024), Eyes Wide Shut: Stanley Kubrick and the Making of His Final Film (Oxford University Press, 2019), and Stanley Kubrick: New York Jewish Intellectual (Rutgers University Press, 2018), as well as the edited collections Eyes Wide Shut: Behind Stanley Kubrick’s Masterpiece (Liverpool University Press, 2023), and The Bloomsbury Companion to Stanley Kubrick (Bloomsbury, 2021).

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Acknowledgments



Introduction: Kubrick and Mitteleuropa, or, a Source of Fascination and Anxiety 

Jeremi Szaniawski and Nathan Abrams



Chapter 1. Kubrick’s Kunstwollen: Fin-de-Siècle Vienna and the Erotics of Authorship in Eyes Wide Shut

Maxfield Fulton



Chapter 2. The Reverberations of War: Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front and the Cinema of Stanley Kubrick

Jason Doerre



Chapter 3. From Caligari to Kubrick: Programmed Children in Weimar Cinema and Stanley Kubrick’s Science Fictions

Joy McEntee



Chapter 4. Kubrick and Kafka: The Corporeal Uncanny

Brigitte Peucker



Chapter 5. A Dark Meditation on the Human Condition: The Shining and Mitteleuropa

Geoffrey Cocks



Chapter 6. Kubrick/Schulz: Echoes of Poland in The Shining

Jeremi Szaniawski



Chapter 7. Penderecki and Kubrick

Krzysztof Kozłowski 



Chapter 8. Restricted Area: On the Distribution and Reception of Stanley Kubrick’s Films in the Polish People’s Republic

Konrad Klejsa



Chapter 9. “A Sentimental Postcard to his Forefathers?”: Stanley Kubrick’s Aryan Papers (1991-1993)

Nathan Abrams