Research Catalog

Title

2001 and counting : Kubrick, Nietzsche, and anthropology / Bruce Kapferer.

Author

Kapferer, Bruce

Publication

• Chicago : Prickly Paradigm Press, [2014]
• ©2014

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Details

Description

iv, 107 pages; 18 cm.

Summary

"Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey is widely recognized as a cult classic. Despite mixed critical reception, the dark and difficult movie mesmerized audiences at the time of its initial screening in 1968 and went on to become one the highest grossing films of the decade. In [this book] ... anthropologist Bruce Kapferer revisits 2001: A Space Odyssey, making a compelling case for its continued cultural relevance. While the film's earliest audiences considered it to be a critical examination of European and American realities at the height of the Cold War, Kapferer shows that Kubrick's masterwork speaks equally well to concerns of the contemporary world, including the Iraq War, the 2008 financial crisis, and the material and political effects of neoliberalism. Kapferer explores Kubrick's central theme--the ever-changing relationship between humanity and technology--both with regard to current events and through the lens of Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra and the mythical concept of the eternal return. A thought-provoking exploration of the cultural power of cinema, this volume by one of anthropology's most insightful and imaginative thinkers will appeal to anthropologists and cineastes alike"--Publisher's description.

Series Statement

Paradigm ; 45

Uniform Title

Paradigm (Chicago, Ill.) 45.

Subject

• Kubrick, Stanley
• Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900
• Nietzsche, Friedrich 1844-1900
• Kubrick, Stanley 1928-1999
• Kubrick, Stanley
• 2001, a space odyssey (Motion picture)
• Also sprach Zarathustra (Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm)
• 2001, a space odyssey
• 1900-1999
• Technology in motion pictures > 20th century
• Technology > Social aspects
• Technology > Political aspects
• Artificial intelligence > Psychological aspects
• Technologie au cinéma > 20e siècle
• Technologie > Aspect politique
• Intelligence artificielle > Aspect psychologique
• Technology in motion pictures
• Rezeption
• Mythos

Note

• A SPACE ODYSSEY AND BEYOND.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• THE SOCIAL AND POLITICAL CONTEXT AND INTELLECTUAL THEMES. A space odyssey, 1968 and tropes of the present -- A space odyssey and its mythic set -- Nietzsche and his centrality in 2001: A space odyssey -- Kubrick's transposition of Nietzsche: from religion to technology.
• THE FILM AND ITS ANALYSIS. A space odyssey and its logic of structure -- A space odyssey: an analytical description. Opening and credits. The Jupiter mission: eighteen months later. Jupiter and beyond the infinite.

ISBN

• 9780984201051
• 098420105X

LCCN

2014901513

OCLC

• 859583983
• SCSB-11282663

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library