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Article: Stanley Kubrick's history lessons: a great deal of reading, from a variety of unusual perspectives, into the life and work of the late great filmmaker.(books about Stanley Kubrick)(Book review)
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- March 22, 2009
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Although Stanley Kubrick was as obsessed with history as he was with filmmaking, the extent and importance of this fact has rarely been the central focus of those who write about his work. The tasks of researching a historical subject and period are generally delegated to specialists in the various aspects of film production. Few directors have matched Kubrick's personal investment and time consumed on historical investigation or the amount of preparatory reading he did before embarking on a project; the entire room of his library reportedly devoted to scholarship on Napoleon for a film he never made is only the most legendary example. ...
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