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Uncanny in Stanley Kubrick's Cinema

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  • ISBN 9781805960164
  • Dimensions: 163 x 239mm
  • Publication Date: 09 Oct 2026
  • Publisher: Liverpool University Press
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Hardback
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This study examines the presence of the Freudian psychoanalytic concept of the uncanny in a selection of films by Stanley Kubrick. Through a close analysis of 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), Barry Lyndon (1975), The Shining (1980) and Eyes Wide Shut (1999), the book explores how the the idea of the uncanny found its way into the director’s work, producing a radical and fascinating unsettling of our subjectivity as spectators and film readers, and asking important questions about our relation to images and the audiovisual.

The author argues that Kubrick’s cinema, one of the most remarkable examples of artistic expression in the twentieth century, makes the uncanny a concept capable of expressing the dynamic and vital nature of the unconscious in the context of modernism and beyond. In so doing, he investigates the boundaries and the rich dialogue between cinema, psychoanalysis, aesthetics and modernism.
About
Gabriele Biotti is a film historian, lecturer, and interdisciplinary researcher. His current research includes film studies, psychoanalysis, the anachronism, and literary theory. He has published books and articles on modern cinema, film theory and history, and auteur cinema.