Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Introduction. Kubrick and Mitteleuropa, or, a Source of Fascination and Anxiety 1
6. 1 Kubrick’s Kunstwollen: Fin-de-Siècle Vienna and the Erotics of Authorship in Eyes Wide Shut 33
7. 2 The Reverberations of War: Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front and the Cinema of Stanley Kubrick 52
8. 3 From Caligari to Kubrick: Programmed Children in Weimar Cinema and Stanley Kubrick’s Science Fictions 68
9. 4 Kubrick and Kafka: The Corporeal Uncanny 83
10. 5 A Dark Meditation on the Human Condition: The Shining and Mitteleuropa 98
11. 6 Kubrick/Schulz: Echoes of Poland in The Shining 115
12. 7 Penderecki and Kubrick 138
13. 8 Restricted Area: On the Distribution and Reception of Stanley Kubrick’s Films in the Polish People’s Republic 158
14. 9 “A Sentimental Post Card to His Forefathers?”: Stanley Kubrick’s Aryan Papers (1991–1993) 184
15. Index 213