Stanley Kubrick bibliography

Last updated December 21, 2024

A list of books and essays about Stanley Kubrick and his films.

Biographies and interviews
General
Use of music
On individual films
Spartacus (1960)
Lolita (1962)
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Barry Lyndon (1975)
The Shining (1980)
Full Metal Jacket (1987)
Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
On unrealized projects
Napoleon
A.I. Artificial Intelligence[a]
On Kubrick as a photographer
Documentaries
Explanatory notes

Biographies and interviews

Baxter, John (1998). Stanley Kubrick: A Biography. London, England: HarperCollins Publishers. ISBN 978-0-00-638445-8.
D'Alessandro, Emilio; Ulivieri, Filippo (5 September 2012). Stanley Kubrick e me. Trent'anni accanto a lui. Rivelazioni e cronache inedite dell'assistente personale di un genio[Stanley Kubrick and Me: Thirty Years Next to Him – Revelations and Unreleased Chronicles by a Genius' Personal Assistant] (in Italian). Milano, Italy: Il Saggiatore. ISBN 978-88-6576-239-4.
Herr, Michael (2001). Kubrick. London, England: Pan Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-330-48113-7.
Kolker, Robert P.; Abrams, Nathan (2024). Kubrick: An Odyssey. New York, N.Y.: Pegasus Books. ISBN 978-1639366248.
Kubrick, Christiane (2002). Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures . Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company. ISBN 978-0-8212-2815-9.
LoBrutto, Vincent (April 1999). Stanley Kubrick: A Biography. Boston, Mass.: Da Capo Press. ISBN 978-0-306-80906-4.
Lyons, Viktoria; Fitzgerald, Michael (1 January 2005). "Stanley Kubrick (1928-1999)". Asperger Syndrome: A Gift Or a Curse?. Hauppauge, N.Y.: Nova Biomedical Books. pp. 185–195. ISBN 978-1-59454-387-6.
Mikics, David (18 August 2020). Stanley Kubrick: American Filmmaker. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-22440-5.
Molina Foix, Vicente (30 May 2019). Kubrick en casa[Kubrick at Home] (in Spanish). Barcelona, Spain: Anagrama. ISBN 978-8433916297.
Phillips, Gene D. (1 January 2001). Stanley Kubrick: Interviews. Jackson, Miss.: University Press of Mississippi. ISBN 978-1-57806-297-3.
Walker, Alexander (1 January 1972). Stanley Kubrick Directs (Expanded ed.). San Diego, Cal.: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. ISBN 978-0156848923.
Walker, Alexander; Taylor, Sybil; Ruchti, Ulrich (1 September 1999). Stanley Kubrick, Director: A Visual Analysis. New York, N.Y.: W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 978-0393046014.

General

Stanley Kubrick: Eyes Wide Open – Guide de l'exposition[Stanley Kubrick: Eyes Wide Open – Guide to the Exhibition]. Special issue of Trois couleurs on the occasion of the Stanley Kubrick exhibition at the Cinémathèque française (in French). Paris, France: MK2 Multimédia. 1 April 2011. ISBN 978-2351360132.
Abrams, Jerold (4 May 2007). The Philosophy of Stanley Kubrick. Lexington, Ky.: University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 978-0-8131-7256-9.
Andersons, Sybil (July 1988). An Architectural Direction, Four Filmmakers: Architecture in the Films of Antonioni, Hitchcock, Kubrick and Polanski (BA dissertation. Printed report, videocassette). Sydney, NSW: University of Sydney. OCLC 222602128.
Azulys, Sam (16 April 2011). Stanley Kubrick : une odyssée philosophique[Stanley Kubrick: A Philosophical Odyssey] (in French). Chatou, France: Transparence. ISBN 978-2350510620.
Bane, Charles (2006). Viewing Novels, Reading Films: Stanley Kubrick and the Art of Adaptation as Interpretation. Baton Rouge, La.: Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College. ISBN 978-0-542-81110-4.
Becker, Andreas (22 February 2024). Scham und Schuld in der filmischen Dramaturgie: Überlegungen zur Darstellung bei Alexander Kluge und Khavn de la Cruz, Edgar Reitz, Frank Wedekind, G.W. Pabst, Günther Anders, Stanley Kubrick, Christian Petzold und Nagisa Ōshima[Shame and Guilt in Film Dramaturgy: Reflections on Representation by Alexander Kluge and Khavn de la Cruz, Edgar Reitz, Frank Wedekind, G.W. Pabst, Günther Anders, Stanley Kubrick, Christian Petzold and Nagisa Oshima] (in German). Marburg, Germany: Büchner. ISBN 978-3963173721.
Berg, Nicole M. (2020). Discovering Kubrick's Symbolism: The Secrets of the Films. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company. ISBN 978-1-4766-8049-1.
Bernardi, Sandro (March 2000). Kubrick e il cinema come arte del visibile[Kubrick and Cinema as the Art of the Visible] (in Italian). Milano, Italy: Il Castoro. ISBN 978-8880331728.
Buache, Freddy (1978). Le cinéma anglais : autour de Kubrick et Losey[English Cinema: On Kubrick and Losey] (in French). Lausanne, Switzerland: L'âge d'homme. ISBN 978-2866423926. OCLC 5221200.
Carr, Jeremy (June 2023). Kubrick and Control: Authority, Order and Independence in the Films and Working Life of Stanley Kubrick. Liverpool, England: Liverpool University Press. ISBN 978-1802078565.
Castle, Alison; Kubrick, Stanley (2005). The Stanley Kubrick Archives. Köln, Germany: Taschen Deutschland. ISBN 978-3-8228-2284-5.
Chion, Michel (2005). Stanley Kubrick : l'humain, ni plus ni moins[Stanley Kubrick: The Human Being, Neither More nor Less] (in French). Paris, France: Cahiers du cinéma. ISBN 978-2866423926.
Ciment, Michel (18 September 2003). Kubrick: The Definitive Edition. London, England: Faber and Faber. ISBN 978-0-571-21108-1.
Cocks, Geoffrey (2004). The Wolf at the Door: Stanley Kubrick, History, & the Holocaust. Lausanne, Switzerland: Lang. ISBN 978-0-8204-7115-0.
Cocks, Geoffrey; Diedrick, James; Perusek, Glenn (1 August 2006). Depth of Field: Stanley Kubrick, Film, and the Uses of History. Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 978-0-299-21613-9.
Costanzo, Paolo; Luglio, Carlo (3 August 2013). Le donne di Kubrick[Kubrick's Women] (in Italian). Morrisville, N.C.: Lulu. ISBN 978-1291510867.
Coyle, Wallace (1980). Stanley Kubrick, a Guide to References and Resources. Boston, Mass.: G. K. Hall. ISBN 978-0-8161-8058-5.
Daniels, Richard; Ljujić, Tatjana; Kramer, Peter, eds. (7 July 2005). Stanley Kubrick: New Perspectives. London, England: Black Dog Publishing. ISBN 978-1908966421.
Devries, Daniel (1973). The Films of Stanley Kubric. Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B. Eerdman's. ISBN 978-0802814814.
Duncan, Paul (1999). Stanley Kubrick. The Pocket Essentials. London, England: Pocket Essentials. ISBN 978-3-8365-2775-0.
Duncan, Paul (2011). Stanley Kubrick: Visual Poet 1928–1999. Köln, Germany: Taschen. ISBN 978-3-8365-2775-0.
Eichhorn, Bernd, ed. (2004). Stanley Kubrick. Vol. 20 of Kinematograph, in connection with the Stanley Kubrick exhibition organized by the Deutsches Filmmuseum and the Deutsches Architekturmuseum. Frankfurt am Main, Germany: Deutsches Filmmuseum. ISBN 978-3887990695.
Eugeni, Ruggero (2015). Invito al cinema di Kubrick[Invitation to Kubrick's Cinema] (in Italian). Milano, Italy: Mursia. ISBN 9788842554424.
Extence, Gavin (September 2008). Cinematic Thought: The Representation of Subjective Processes in the Films of Bergman, Resnais and Kubrick (PDF) (PhD thesis). Sheffield, England: University of Sheffield. OCLC 966456748. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 July 2024. Retrieved 20 December 2024– via White Rose eTheses Online.
Falsetto, Mario (1996). Perspectives on Stanley Kubrick. Boston, Mass.: G. K. Hall. ISBN 978-0-8161-1991-2.
Falsetto, Mario (1 January 2001). Stanley Kubrick: A Narrative and Stylistic Analysis. Santa Barbara, Cal.: Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-275-96974-5.
Felden, Thorsten (August 2007). Man/Machine Interaction in the Work of Stanley Kubrick. München, Germany: Grin Verlag. ISBN 978-3-638-72193-6.
Fenwick, James (2020). Stanley Kubrick Produces. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press. ISBN 9781978814882.
Fischer, Ralf Michael (2009). Raum und Zeit im filmischen Oeuvre von Stanley Kubrick[Space and Time in Stanley Kubrick's Cinematic Oeuvre] (in German). Berlin, Germany: Gebr. Mann Verlag. ISBN 978-3-7861-2598-3.
Fraisse, Philippe (3 June 2010). Le cinéma au bord du monde : une approche de Stanley Kubrick[Cinema at the Edge of the World: An Approach to Stanley Kubrick] (in French). Paris, France: Gallimard. ISBN 978-2070126682.
García Mainar, Luis M. (2000). Narrative and Stylistic Patterns in the Films of Stanley Kubrick. Rochester, N.Y.: Camden House Publishing. ISBN 978-1-57113-265-9.
Gauthier, Brigitte, ed. (2012). Kubrick, les films[Kubrick: The Films] (in French). Paris, France: L'Entretemps. ISBN 978-2355391385.
Ghezzi, Enrico (21 March 2007). Stanley Kubrick. Il Castoro Cinema (in Italian) (5th ed.). Milano, Italy: Il Castoro. ISBN 978-8880334170.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)
Guerra, Michele (2007). Il meccanismo indifferente: la concezione della storia nel cinema di Stanley Kubrick[The Indifferent Mechanism: The conception of History in the Cinema of Stanley Kubrick] (in Italian). Roma, Italy: Aracne. ISBN 978-8854809895.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)
Howard, James (1999). Stanley Kubrick Companion. London, England: Batsford Books. ISBN 978-0-7134-8487-8.
Hughes, David (31 May 2013). The Complete Kubrick. London, England: Ebury Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4481-3321-5.
Inoue, Yoshikazu (2022). Sutanri Kyuburikku eiga posuta-a-kai: senden posuta- made mo kontoro-rushita otokoスタンリー・キューブリック映画ポスター・アーカイヴ: 宣伝ポスターまでもコントロールした男[Stanley Kubrick Film Poster Archives: The Man Who Controlled Even Advertising Posters] (in Japanese). Tokyo, Japan: DU Books. ISBN 978-4866471679.
Jacke, Andreas (February 2009). Stanley Kubrick: eine Deutung der Konzepte seiner Filme[Stanley Kubrick: An Interpretation of the Concepts in His Films] (in German). Gießen, Germany: Psychosozial-Verlag. ISBN 978-3-89806-856-7.
Jansen, Peter W.; Schütte, Wolfram, eds. (1984). Stanley Kubrick. Reihe Film no. 18 (in German). München, Germany: Hanser. ISBN 978-3446126398.
Jenkins, Greg (1 January 1997). Stanley Kubrick and the Art of Adaptation: Three Novels, Three Films . Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company. ISBN 978-0-7864-0281-6.
Kagan, Norman (29 February 2000). Cinema of Stanley Kubrick (3rd ed.). London, England: Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 978-0-8264-1243-0.
Kaul, Susanne; Palmier, Jean-Pierre (2019). Stanley Kubrick Einführung in Seine Filme und Filmästhetik[Stanley Kubrick: Introduction to His Films and Film Aesthetics] (in German). Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. ISBN 978-0244846954.
Kinney, Judy Lee (1982). Text and Pretext: Stanley Kubrick's Adaptations (PhD thesis). Los Angeles, Cal.: University of California, Los Angeles. OCLC 13178053.
Kolker, Robert (7 July 2011). A Cinema of Loneliness: Penn, Stone, Kubrick, Scorsese, Spielberg, Altman. New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-973888-5.
Kozłowski, Krzysztof (2013). Stanley Kubrick: filmowa polifonia sztuk[Stanley Kubrick: A Cinematic Polyphony of Arts] (in Polish). Warszawa, Poland: PWN. ISBN 978-8301173005.
Krohn, Bill (2010). Stanley Kubrick. Masters of Cinema – Cahiers du Cinéma. New York, N.Y.: Phaidon Press. ISBN 978-2866425722.
Kuberski, Philip (2012). Kubrick's Total Cinema: Philosophical Themes and Formal Qualities. London, England: Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 978-1-4411-4956-5.
Lerose, Massimo (2011). Doppio Kubrick ...e se i suoi 13 film fossero in realtà uno solo?[Double Kubrick: What if His 13 Films Were Actually Only One Film?] (in Italian). Civitavecchia, Italy: Prospettiva. ISBN 978-8874187317.
Naremore, James (2023). On Kubrick (Revised ed.). London, England: British Film Institute and Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 978-1-8390-2400-9.
Nelson, Thomas Allen (22 June 2000). Kubrick: Inside a Film Artist's Maze (New and expanded ed.). Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0253213907.
Nolan, Amy Lynn (22 March 2005). Re-envisioning the Mind–Body Labyrinth: Transformations in the Contemporary Narratives of Stanley Kubrick, Paul Auster, Christopher Nolan and Kathy Acker (PhD thesis). East Lansing, Mich.: Michigan State University. doi: 10.25335/1wpj-kv41 . OCLC 225617259. Archived from the original on 26 November 2024. Retrieved 21 December 2024.
Perko, Manca (January 2019). Collaborative Authorship in Stanley Kubrick’s Films (PhD thesis). Norwich, England: University of East Anglia. OCLC 1122175102. Archived (PDF) from the original on 16 June 2024. Retrieved 21 December 2024.
Pezzotta, Elisa (25 July 2013). Stanley Kubrick: Adapting the Sublime. Jackson, Miss.: University Press of Mississippi. ISBN 978-1617038938.
Phillips, Gene D. (1977). Stanley Kubrick: A Film Odyssey. New York, N.Y.: Popular Library. ISBN 978-0445041011.
Phillips, Gene D.; Hill, Rodney (2002). The Encyclopedia of Stanley Kubrick. New York, N.Y.: Facts on File. ISBN 978-0816043880.
Pierre, Arnauld (2010). Maternités cosmiques : la recherche des origines de Kupka à Kubrick[Cosmic Motherhoods: The Search for Origins, from Kupka to Kubrick] (in French). Paris, France: Hazan. ISBN 978-2754104555.
Rambuss, Richard (2021). Kubrick's Men. New York, N.Y.: Fordham University Press. ISBN 978-0823293889.
Rasmussen, Randy (28 February 2005). Stanley Kubrick: Seven Films Analyzed. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company. ISBN 978-0-7864-2152-7.
Rice, Julian (2008). Kubrick's Hope: Discovering Optimism from 2001 to Eyes Wide Shut. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0810862067.
Rhodes, Gary Don (2008). Stanley Kubrick: Essays on his Films and Legacy. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company. ISBN 978-0-7864-3297-4.
Sandoval, Michael (2016). The Stanley Kubrick Handbook: Everything You Need to Know About Stanley Kubrick. La Vergne, Tenn.: Emereo. ISBN 978-1489169860.
Sperb, Jason (2006). The Kubrick Facade: Faces and Voices in the Films of Stanley Kubrick. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-5855-8.
Switzer, Judith A. (26 October 1981). Stanley Kubrick: The Filmmaker as Satirist (PhD thesis). New York, N.Y.: New York University. OCLC 854765007.
Tatsumi, Takayuki (1999). Sutanri Kyuburikkuスタンリー・キューブリック[Stanley Kubrick] (in Japanese). Tokyo, Japan: Kinema Junpōsha. ISBN 978-4873765211.
Wade, Chris (21 December 2019). Stanley Kubrick On Screen. Morrisville, N.C.: Lulu. ISBN 978-0244846954.
Webster, Patrick (21 December 2010). Love and Death in Kubrick: A Critical Study of the Films from Lolita Through Eyes Wide Shut. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company. ISBN 978-0-7864-6191-2.
Zhu, Yeqi (2022). Yù yán zhī jìng: Sītǎnlì Kùbùlǐkè diàn yǐng gǎi biān yán jiū寓言之境: 斯坦利·库布里克电影改编研究[The Realm of Allegory: A Study of Stanley Kubrick's Film Adaptations] (in Chinese). Shànghǎi, China: Fùdàn dà xué chū bǎn shè. ISBN 978-7309163940.

Use of music

Gauthier, Brigitte, ed. (2012). Kubrick, les musiques[Kubrick: The Music] (in French). Paris, France: L'Entretemps. ISBN 978-2355391491.
Gengaro, Christine Lee (1 November 2012). Listening to Stanley Kubrick: The Music in His Films. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-0-8108-8564-6.
McQuiston, Kate (December 2013). We'll Meet Again: Musical Design in the Films of Stanley Kubrick. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-976766-3.
Sanvoisin, Rémy (2014). Kubrick et la musique[Kubrick and Music] (in French). Paris, France: Vrin. ISBN 978-2711625567.

On individual films

Spartacus (1960)

Winkler, Martin M., ed. (2008). Spartacus: Film and History. Hoboken, N.J.: Blackwell. ISBN 978-0-470-77726-8.

Lolita (1962)

Drtilová, Zuzana (2007). Tři verze Lolity: román – scénář – film [Three Versions of Lolita: Novel, Script, Film](PDF) (Dissertation) (in Czech). Olomouc, Czech Republic: Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci. OCLC 854765007. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 December 2024. Retrieved 19 December 2024– via Theses.cz.
Machu, Didier; Tuhkunen, Taïna (26 August 2009). Lolita, roman de Vladimir Nabokov (1955) et film de Stanley Kubrick (1962)[Lolita: Novel by Vladimir Nabokov (1955) and Film by Stanley Kubrick (1962)] (in French). Paris, France: Ellipses. ISBN 978-2729852863.
Martiny, Erik (12 November 2009). Lolita: From Nabokov to Kubrick and Lyne. Paris, France: CDU Sedes. ISBN 978-2301000590.
Pilińska, Anna (10 September 2015). Lolita Between Adaptation and Interpretation: From Nabokov's Novel and Screenplay to Kubrick's Film. Newcastle upon Tyne, England: Cambridge Scholars. ISBN 978-1443880497.
Schulze, Kerstin (10 May 2011). A Novel and Its Adaptation: Stanley Kubrick – Lolita (1962). München, Germany: Grin Verlag. ISBN 978-3-640-91182-0.

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)

Broderick, Mick (3 January 2017). Reconstructing Strangelove: Inside Stanley Kubrick's "Nightmare Comedy". London, England: Wallflower. ISBN 978-0231177092.

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

Agel, Jerome, ed. (April 1970). The Making of Kubrick's 2001 . New York, N.Y.: New American Library.
Benson, Michael (April 2018). Space Odyssey: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke, and the Making of a Masterpiece. New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-1-5011-6395-1.
Bisony, Piers (23 September 2015). The Making of Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. Köln, Germany: Taschen. ISBN 978-3836559546.
Chion, Michel (2001). Kubrick's Cinema Odyssey. London, England: British Film Institute. ISBN 978-0-85170-839-3.
Fenwick, James, ed. (2020). Understanding Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey: Representation and Interpretation. Bristol, England: Intellect. ISBN 978-1789382129.
Frewin, Anthony, ed. (2005). Are We Alone?: The Stanley Kubrick Extraterrestrial Intelligence Interviews. London, England: Elliott & Thompson. ISBN 978-1904027454.
Frinzi, Joe R. (24 July 2017). Kubrick's Monolith: The Art and Mystery of 2001: A Space Odyssey. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company. ISBN 978-1476664422.
Halstead, Albert (28 January 2019). Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey: How Patterns, Archetypes and Style Inform a Narrative (EBook). Pennsauken, N.J.: BookBaby. ISBN 978-1543956863.
Kolker, Robert (24 February 2006). Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey: New Essays. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-972436-9.
Richter, Dan (25 July 2002). Moonwatcher's Memoir: A Diary of 2001: A Space Odyssey. Foreword by Arthur C. Clarke. New York, N.Y.: Carroll & Graf. ISBN 978-0786710737.
Schwam, Stephanie, ed. (7 March 2000). The Making of 2001, A Space Odyssey. New York, N.Y.: Modern Library. ISBN 978-0375755286.
Stelzer, Philipp (2022). Anfänge der Globalisierung: Macht und Mythos in Epischen Anfangskonstruktionen Bei Ovid, Milton und Kubrick[Beginnings of Globalization: Power and Myth in Epic Initial Constructions in Ovid, Milton and Kubrick] (in German). Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. ISBN 978-3846767320.
Wheat, Leonard F. (21 June 2000). Kubrick's 2001: A Triple Allegory. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-1-4616-6023-1.

A Clockwork Orange (1971)

Böttcher, Heiko (31 March 2007). The Metamorphosis of Alex in Stanley Kubrick's Clockwork Orange from a Viewpoint of Abnormal Psychology. München, Germany: Grin Verlag. ISBN 978-3-638-63109-9.
von der Heide, Thomas (1 June 2006). A Clockwork Orange: The Presentation and the Impact of Violence in the Novel and in the Film. München, Germany: Grin Verlag. ISBN 978-3-638-50681-6.
Kubrick, Stanley; Burgess, Anthony (2000). Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange: Based on the Novel by Anthony Burgess. Southwold, England: ScreenPress Books. ISBN 978-1-901680-47-8.
McDougal, Stuart Y. (7 July 2003). Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-57488-4.
Schill, Oliver (14 January 2004). The Expressionistic Style and the Theatricality in Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange (1971). München, Germany: Grin Verlag. ISBN 978-3-638-24523-4.
Volkmann, Maren (16 October 2006). A Clockwork Orange in the Context of Subculture. München, Germany: Grin Verlag. ISBN 978-3-638-55498-5.

Barry Lyndon (1975)

Cocchi, Paolo (27 September 2009). Musica e Immagine in Barry Lyndon di Stanley Kubrick[Music and Image in Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon] (in Italian). Morrisville, N.C.: Lulu. ISBN 978-1445202754.
Pilard, Philippe (1990). Barry Lyndon: Stanley Kubrick (in French). Paris, France: Nathan. ISBN 978-2091886268.
Pramaggiore, Maria (2020). Making Time in Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon: Art, History and Empire. London, England: Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 978-1501300318.

The Shining (1980)

Mee, Laura (28 September 2017). The Shining. Devil's Advocates. Liverpool, England: Liverpool University Press. ISBN 978-1911325444.
Olson, Danel, ed. (2015). Stanley Kubrick's The Shining: Studies in the Horror Film. Lakewood, Colo.: Centipede Press. ISBN 978-1613470695.
Rinzler, J.W. (15 December 2024). Unkrich, Lee (ed.). Stanley Kubrick's The Shining. Köln, Germany: Taschen. ISBN 978-3754400036.
Wade, Chris (14 September 2018). Stanley Kubrick's The Shining. Classic Film Series. Morrisville, N.C.: Lulu. ISBN 978-0244416003.

Full Metal Jacket (1987)

Modine, Matthew (25 October 2005). Full Metal Jacket Diary. New York, N.Y.: Rugged Land. ISBN 9781590710470.

Eyes Wide Shut (1999)

Abrams, Nathan; Orgill, Georgina, eds. (2023). Eyes Wide Shut: Behind Stanley Kubrick's Masterpiece. Liverpool, England: Liverpool University Press. ISBN 978-1-83764-515-2.
Althaus, Benjamin (18 November 2004). Communication in Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut. München, Germany: Grin Verlag. ISBN 978-3-638-32589-9.
Kolker, Robert P.; Abrams, Nathan (June 2019). Eyes Wide Shut: Stanley Kubrick and the Making of His Final Film. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0190678036.
Raphael, Frederic (31 August 1999). Eyes Wide Open: A Memoir of Stanley Kubrick. New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books. ISBN 9780345437761.
Ruwe, Carolin (November 2007). Symbols in Stanley Kubrick's Movie Eyes Wide Shut. München, Germany: Grin Verlag. ISBN 978-3-638-84176-4.

On unrealized projects

Napoleon

Castle, Alison, ed. (2009). Stanley Kubrick's Napoleon: The Greatest Movie Never Made. Köln, Germany: Taschen. ISBN 978-3836568890.

A.I. Artificial Intelligence^[a]

Harlan, Jan; Struthers, Jane M. (2009). A.I. Artificial Intelligence: From Stanley Kubrick to Steven Spielberg – The Vision Behind the Film. London, England: Thames & Hudson. ISBN 978-0-500-51489-4.
Rice, Julian (2017). Kubrick's Story, Spielberg's Film: A.I. Artificial Intelligence. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-1442278189.

On Kubrick as a photographer

Stanley Kubrick Photographer. Catalog of the "Stanley Kubrick Photographer" exhibition held at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium. Arles, France: Actes Sud. 12 May 2012. ISBN 978-8809776661.
Calabrese, Omar (2012). Stanley Kubrick fotografo[Stanley Kubrick the Photographer] (Catalog of an exhibition held at the Palazzo delle Arti di Napoli, Naples, Italy in 2012) (in Italian). Firenze, Italy: Giunti. ISBN 978-8809778849.
Crone, Rainer (2005). Stanley Kubrick: Drama & Shadows – Photographs 1945-1950. London, England and New York, N.Y.: Phaidon Press. ISBN 978-0-7148-4438-1.
Mather, Philippe (2013). Stanley Kubrick at Look Magazine: Authorship and Genre in Photojournalism and Film. Bristol, England: Intellect. ISBN 978-1-84150-611-1.
Sante, Luc; Corcoran, Sean; Albrecht, Donald (2018). Stanley Kubrick Photographs: Through a Different Lens. Köln, Germany: Taschen. ISBN 978-3-8365-7232-3.

Documentaries

Kubrick by Kubrick (Motion picture). Written and directed by Grégory Monro. 12 May 2020. OCLC 1390632748.{{cite AV media}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
Room 237 (Motion picture). Written and directed by Rodney Ascher. 23 January 2012. OCLC 854579016.{{cite AV media}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
S Is for Stanley: 30 Years Behind the Wheel for Stanley Kubrick (Motion picture). Directed by Alex Infascelli, written by Alex Infascelli, Filippo Ulivieri and Vincenzo Scuccimarra. October 2015. OCLC 1090158732.{{cite AV media}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
Stanley Kubrick's Boxes (Television production). Written and directed by Jon Ronson. 15 July 2008. OCLC 513359220.{{cite AV media}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures (Motion picture). Directed by Jan Harlan. 17 February 2001. OCLC 179924124.{{cite AV media}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)

Explanatory notes

↑ A.I. was eventually directed by Steven Spielberg after Kubrick handed him the project during development. It was released in 2001.

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<i>Eyes Wide Shut</i> 1999 film by Stanley Kubrick

Eyes Wide Shut is a 1999 erotic mystery psychological drama film directed, produced, and co-written by Stanley Kubrick. It is based on the 1926 novella Dream Story by Arthur Schnitzler, transferring the story's setting from early twentieth-century Vienna to 1990s New York City. The plot centers on a doctor who is shocked when his wife reveals that she had contemplated having an affair 12 months earlier. He then embarks on a night-long adventure, during which he infiltrates a masked orgy of an unnamed secret society.

Stanley Kubrick was an American film director, screenwriter, producer, and photographer. Widely considered one of the greatest filmmakers of all time, his films were nearly all adaptations of novels or short stories, spanning a number of genres and gaining recognition for their intense attention to detail, innovative cinematography, extensive set design, and dark humor.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Max Ophüls</span> German film director (1902–1957)

Maximillian Oppenheimer, known as Max Ophüls or simply Ophuls, was a German and French film director and screenwriter. He was known for his opulent and lyrical visual style, with heavy use of tracking shots, and his melancholic, romantic themes. The Harvard Film Archive referred to Ophüls as "a supreme stylist of the cinema and a master storyteller."

Suellyn Lyon was an American actress who is most famous today for playing the title role in Stanley Kubrick's 1962 film adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov's novel Lolita, for which she was awarded a Golden Globe.

Lolita is a 1962 black comedy-psychological drama film directed by Stanley Kubrick, based on the 1955 novel of the same name by Vladimir Nabokov.

<i>A Clockwork Orange</i> (film) 1971 film directed by Stanley Kubrick

A Clockwork Orange is a 1971 dystopian crime film adapted, produced, and directed by Stanley Kubrick, based on Anthony Burgess's 1962 novel. It employs disturbing and violent themes to comment on psychiatry, juvenile delinquency, youth gangs, and other social, political, and economic subjects in a dystopian near-future Britain.

Christiane Susanne Kubrick is a German actress and painter. She was born into a theatrical family, and was the wife of filmmaker Stanley Kubrick from 1958 until his death in 1999.

Andrew Timothy Birkin is an English screenwriter and director.

The Stanley Kubrick Archive is held by the University of the Arts London in their Archives and Special Collection Centre at the London College of Communication. The Archive opened in October 2007 and contains material collected and owned by the film director Stanley Kubrick (1928–1999). It was transferred from his home in 2007 through a gift by his family. It contains much of Kubrick's working material that was accumulated during his lifetime.

Since its premiere in 1968, the film 2001: A Space Odyssey has been analysed and interpreted by numerous people, ranging from professional movie critics to amateur writers and science fiction fans. The director of the film, Stanley Kubrick, and the writer, Arthur C. Clarke, wanted to leave the film open to philosophical and allegorical interpretation, purposely presenting the final sequences of the film without the underlying thread being apparent; a concept illustrated by the final shot of the film, which contains the image of the embryonic "Starchild". Nonetheless, in July 2018, Kubrick's interpretation of the ending scene was presented after being newly found in an early interview.

Lolita is a 1955 novel written by Russian-American novelist Vladimir Nabokov that addresses the controversial subject of hebephilia. The protagonist is a French literature professor who moves to New England and writes under the pseudonym Humbert Humbert. He describes his obsession with a 12-year-old "nymphet", Dolores Haze, whom he kidnaps and sexually abuses after becoming her stepfather. Privately, he calls her "Lolita", the Spanish diminutive for Dolores. The novel was written in English, but fear of censorship in the U.S. and Britain led to it being first published in Paris, France, in 1955 by Olympia Press.

<i>2001: A Space Odyssey</i> 1968 film directed by Stanley Kubrick

2001: A Space Odyssey is a 1968 epic science fiction film produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick. The screenplay was written by Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke. Its plot was inspired by several short stories optioned from Clarke, primarily "The Sentinel" (1951) and "Encounter in the Dawn" (1953). The film stars Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester, and Douglas Rain. It follows a voyage by astronauts, scientists, and the sentient supercomputer HAL 9000 to Jupiter to investigate an alien monolith.

The following is a list of unproduced Stanley Kubrick projects in roughly chronological order. During his long career, American film director Stanley Kubrick had worked on a number of projects which never progressed beyond the pre-production stage under his direction. Some of these projects fell into development hell or are officially cancelled.

Anthony Edward Frewin is a British writer and erstwhile personal assistant to film director Stanley Kubrick. Frewin now represents the Stanley Kubrick Estate. His novel London Blues has been described as "masterful".

Stanley Kubrick (1928–1999) directed thirteen feature films and three short documentaries over the course of his career. His work as a director, spanning diverse genres, is regarded as highly influential.

Piers Bizony is a science journalist, space historian, author, and exhibition organiser. Bizony specialises in the topics of outer space, special effects, and technology. He has written articles for The Independent, BBC Focus and Wired. His 1997 book The Rivers of Mars was shortlisted for the Eugene M. Emme Astronautical Literature Award. His book 2001: Filming the Future is an authoritative reference about Stanley Kubrick's film 2001: A Space Odyssey. His 2017 book Moonshots was inspired by Michael Light's 1999 book Full Moon.

Robert Phillip Kolker is an American film historian, theorist, and critic. He has authored and edited a number of influential books on cinema and media studies. He is a Professor Emeritus at the University of Maryland, College Park.

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[1] A.I. was eventually directed by Steven Spielberg after Kubrick handed him the project during development. It was released in 2001.

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British	Chaplin Hitchcock Lean Powell & Pressburger
Danish	Dreyer von Trier
French	Bresson Méliès Renoir Rivette Truffaut
German	Herzog Lang
Indian	Ray Kapoor
Italian	De Sica Fellini Monicelli Pasolini Rossellini
Japanese	Kurosawa
Russian	Eisenstein Tarkovsky
Spanish	Buñuel
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v t e Stanley Kubrick
Archive Bibliography Filmography Accolades Influence Personal life Political and religious beliefs Unrealized projects
Feature films	Fear and Desire (1953) Killer's Kiss (1955) The Killing (1956) Paths of Glory (1957) Spartacus (1960) Lolita (1962) Dr. Strangelove (1964) 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) A Clockwork Orange (1971) Barry Lyndon (1975) The Shining (1980) Full Metal Jacket (1987) Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
Short films	Day of the Fight (1951) Flying Padre (1951) The Seafarers (1953)
Photography books	Stanley Kubrick: Drama & Shadows: Photographs 1945–1950 (2005)
Related	Interpretations of 2001 Recurring cast members Kubrick Mons Kubrick stare CRM 114
Related films	World Assembly of Youth (1952) Strangers Kiss (1983) A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001) Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures (2001) Colour Me Kubrick (2005) Stanley Kubrick's Boxes (2008) Room 237 (2012) S Is for Stanley (2016) Filmworker (2017) Kubrick by Kubrick (2020)
People	Ruth Sobotka (second wife) Christiane Kubrick (third wife) Vivian Kubrick (daughter) Jan Harlan (brother-in-law) Anthony Frewin (personal assistant) Leon Vitali (personal assistant) Alan Conway (con-man)