Author Archive for: ‘Peter Kramer’

From 2001: Space Odyssey to Avatar – Reflections on Cultural Impact and Academic Research

The call for papers for this special issue about Stanley Kubrick’s impact on contemporary culture listed as possible topics not only fairly predictable items such as “[f]ilmmakers and their works influenced by Kubrick” and “Kubrick works completed, or to be completed, by others”, but also, in a somewhat surprising self-reflective move, “Kubrick scholarship and the proliferation of revisionist works”. It …

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