Gender, Power, and Identity in The Films of Stanley Kubrick

Karen A. Ritzenhoff is Professor in the Department of Communication at Central Connecticut State University, USA. Dijana Metlić is Associate Professor of Art History at the Academy of Arts, University of Novi Sad, Republic of Serbia. Jeremi Szaniawski is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and Film Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA.

Introduction; 1. The Problems with Lolita (1962); 2. Sue Lyon and the Consequences of the “Lolita Look”; 3. The Legacy of Spartacus (1960) in the Depiction of Ancient Slavery Onscreen: Draba and His Heirs; 4. From Female Stereotypes to Women with Agency: Elite Women and Slave Women in Howard Fast’s 1951 novel, Spartacus (1960) and Starz Spartacus (2010-2013); 5. Fear and Desire, Casual Misogyny, and 1950s Art House Cinema; 6. The Shining and UK Feminist Activism; 7. Mothers Trapped Between Law, Economy, Society, and Desire; 8. A Feminist Kubrick? Or, What if Women Were the Main Character(s) in Stanley Kubrick’s films?; 9. Kubrick’s and Klimt’s Femmes Fatales: Eyes Wide Shut and the Crisis of Masculine Identity; 10. Kubrick and Sex: Exploring the Gender Politics of His Cinema; 11. Kubrick’s Crypto-Jewesses; 12. Misogyny and Music in A Clockwork Orange; 13. Wendy Torrance and Alice Harford, Shrews Who Will Not Be Tamed; 14. Violence and Power in Kubrick’s Later Cinema; 15. Female Transgression and Discontent in Barry Lyndon; 16. Kubrick and Bergman: Scenes from a Marriage; 17. Someone to Care About: Children in Stanley Kubrick’s Films; 18. Old Age, Ageing and Fatherhood in Kubrick