After Kubrick

Taking at its starting point the idea that Kubrick's cinema has constituted an intellectual cerebral and philosophical maze in which many filmmakers (as well as thinkers and a substantial fringe of the general public) have gotten lost at one point or another this collection looks at the legacy of Kubrick's films in the 21st century.<br/><br/>The main avenues investigated are as follows: a look at Kubrick's influence on his most illustrious followers (Paul Thomas Anderson the Coen Brothers Christopher Nolan Ridley Scott and Lars von Trier to name a few); Kubrick in critical reception; Kubrick in stylistic (camera movements set designs music) thematic (artificial intelligence new frontiers- large and small) aesthetic (the question of genre pastiche stereoscopy) and political terms (paranoia democracy and secret societies conspiracy theories). <br/><br/>The contributions coalesce around the concept of a Kubrickian substrate rich and complex which permeates our Western cultural landscape very much to this day informing and sometimes announcing/reflecting it in twisted ways 21 years after the director's death.