Stanley Kubrick at Look Magazine

Authorship and Genre in Photojournalism and Film

By (author) Philippe D. Mather

Publication date:

15 April 2013

Publisher

Intellect Books

Dimensions:

229x178mm
7x9"

ISBN-13: 9781841506111

From 1945 to 1950, during the formative years of his career, Stanley Kubrick worked as a photojournalist for Look magazine. Offering a comprehensive examination of the work he produced during this period – before going on to become one of America’s most celebrated filmmakers – Stanley Kubrick at Look Magazine sheds new light on the aesthetic and ideological factors that shaped his artistic voice. Tracing the links between his photojournalism and films, Philippe Mather shows how working at Look fostered Kubrick’s emerging genius for combining images and words to tell a story. Mather then demonstrates how exploring these links enhances our understanding of Kubrick’s approach to narrative structure – as well as his distinctive combinations of such genres as fiction and documentary and fantasy and realism.

Introduction

PART I: Authorship: A Sociology of Production

Chapter 1: Psychosocial Context: A Formative Period. Stanley Kubrick at Look Magazine in the Lifespan

Chapter 2: Macro-objective Analysis: Look Magazine’s Organizational Structure

Chapter 3: Micro-objectivity: The Work Culture at Look Magazine

Chapter 4: Macro-subjectivity: Look Magazine’s Conception of Photojournalism

Chapter 5: Micro-subjectivity: Stanley Kubrick’s Conception of Photojournalism and Film PART II: Genre: Contexts of Reception

Chapter 6: Photojournalism Genres: A Semantic/Syntactic/Pragmatic Approach

Chapter 7: Photography and Film: History, Ontology and Pragmatics

Chapter 8: From Photojournalism to Film: Transmedial Correspondences in the Formal and Stylistic Systems

Chapter 9: Photography in Film: Photographic and Documentary Aspects of Kubrick’s Films

Conclusion

'A fascinating book'