Kubrick : an odyssey / Robert P. Kolker and Nathan Abrams.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 603-626) and index.

'A relatively normal life' -- 'From oddball to intriguing misfit' 1928-1945 -- 'Stan Kubrick, photo, 1414 Shakespeare Ave., NYC' 1945-1949 -- 'As if we were doing War and Peace' 1949-1951 -- 'A bumbling amateur film exercise' 1951-1953 -- 'Baby, nobody's going to get anything out of this movie but me' 1953-1955 -- 'The gangster and the artist' 1955-1956 -- 'He provides a very necessary threat' 1956 -- 'Stanley, I don't think this picture will ever make a nickel, but we have to make it' 1957-1958 -- 'Stanley Hubris' 1958-1959 -- 'Now I can make a story that I have a crush on' 1959-1961 -- 'Intrigued by the threat of nuclear war' 1961-1962 -- 'I'm a bit more of a science-fiction addict than you might have suspected' 1963-1964 -- 'Science fiction? You've got to be kidding' 1964-1965 -- 'Mr Cool' 1965-1968 -- 'Americans don't like films where people write with feathers' 1968-1970 -- 'A terrible man. Just shocking' 1970-1972 -- 'I'm not a Franz Kafka, sitting alone and suffering' 1972-1974 -- 'He is never far wrong about anything' 1974-1975 -- 'I've always liked fairy tales and myths' 1976-1977 -- 'He was an artist, with the inner life of one, dreaming about his work' 1977-1978 -- 'How can we do it better than it's ever been done before?' 1978-1980 -- 'Anxiously awaiting getting an idea' 1980-1982 -- 'A terse spitball of a book, fine and real and terrifying' 1982-1984 -- 'As daunting and inscrutible as a monolith' 1984-1987 -- 'I might just tinker with it a little. . .' 1988-1991 -- 'Routines of evasive deception' 1991-1993 -- 'His creative process and mind were not sufficiently aligned' 1994-1995 -- 'Didn't he wind up. . .in some place with a very bad climate?' 1995-1996 -- 'It's my best film ever' 1996-1999 -- 'The guy who was my pal' March-December 1999.

This immersive biography of the legendary director of films such as 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Shining and A Clockwork Orange is based on new research and interviews with family members and those who worked with him.

"The enigmatic and elusive filmmaker Stanley Kubrick has not been treated to a full-length biography in over twenty years. 'Kubrick: An Odyssey' fills that gap. This definitive book is based on access to the latest research, especially Kubrick's archive at the University of the Arts, London, as well as other private papers plus new interviews with family members and those who worked with him. It offers comprehensive and in-depth coverage of Kubrick's personal, private, public, and working life. 'Kubrick: An Odyssey' investigates not only the making of Kubrick's films, but also about those he wanted (but failed) to make like Burning Secret, Napoleon, Aryan Papers, and A.I. Revealingly, this immersive biography will puncture the controversial myths about the reclusive filmmaker who created some of the most important works of art of the twentieth century." -- Publisher's description.