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Stanley Kubrick and the Internationalisation of Postwar Hollywood
This essay examines the early career, up to 1960, of the Jewish-American filmmaker
Stanley Kubrick, covering his first five features as well as his short films, his
unrealised projects and also, very briefly, his initial work as a photojournalist.
With detailed references to Fear and Desire (1953), Paths of Glory (1957) and The
German Lieutenant (a script that came close to production in 1959), it discusses
Kubrickâs strong interest in twentieth-century German and Austrian culture and
history, his âproceduralâ approach to stories about World Wars I and II, and the
increasing internationalisation of the content and production circumstances of
his work. These developments are discussed in relation to box office trends and
public opinion in the United States as well as to changes in Hollywoodâs mode of
production and key markets in the post-war era