Synopses & Reviews
Review
"Highly recommended. Academic libraries supporting film studies at the lower-division undergraduate level and above." Choice
Synopsis
Brings together new and critically informed essays about one of the most controversial films ever made. It examines the literary origins of the work, the nature of cinematic violence, questions of gender and the film's treatment of sexuality, and the difficulties of adapting an invented language for the screen.
Table of Contents
Introduction: 'What's it going to be then, eh?': Questioning Kubrick's Clockwork Stuart Y. McDougal; 1. A Clockwork ... ticking Robert Kolker; 2. The cultural productions of A Clockwork Orange Janet Staiger; 3. An erotics of violence: masculinity and (homo)sexuality in Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange Margaret DeRosia; 4. Stanley Kubrick and the art cinema Krin Gabbard and Shailja Sharma; 5. 'A bird of like rarest spun heavenmetal': music in A Clockwork Orange Peter J. Rabinowitz; Reviews of A Clockwork Orange, 1972; A Glossary of Nadsat; Filmography.