Browsing by Author "Kramer, Peter"
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2001: Odissea nello spazio (2001: A Space Odyssey)
Kramer, Peter (Book chapter)This essay examines some of the letters in which American cinemagoers described, and sometimes explained, their (largely positive) experiences with Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey to the filmmaker. It also explores ... -
Adaptation as Exploration: Stanley Kubrick, Literature and A.I.: Artificial Intelligence
Kramer, Peter (Article)It is widely acknowledged in the scholarly work on Stanley Kubrick that most of his thirteen feature films were adaptations of literary texts. Much less attention has been paid to the fact that among the numerous projects ... -
An Angel in Hell: Artur Brauner and the Attempt to Make a German Oskar-Schindler-Biopic
Kramer, Peter (Article)Film Studies tends to deal only with film projects that have been completed and pays particular attention to the work of directors, thus largely ignoring the fact that the vast majority of attempts to make movies fail, ... -
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Kramer, Peter (Book)How will the world end? Which political rivalries and conflicts, military strategies and technologies, human delusions and decisions, accidents and unintended consequences will bring about global disaster? What kind of ... -
Enter the World’: James Cameron’s Avatar (2009) and the Family-Adventure Movie
Kramer, Peter (Book chapter)In this chapter, I contextualise the extraordinary success of James Cameron's Avatar (2009) by relating it to dominant global box office trends, with a particular emphasis on the prominence of fantasy and Science Fiction ... -
’A film specially suitable for children’: The Marketing and Reception of 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Kramer, Peter (Book chapter)This chapter builds on my earlier publications about Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), using some of the same archival sources, but also exploring in much more detail than before the place of children in the ... -
From 2001: Space Odyssey to Avatar: Reflections on Cultural Impact and Academic Research
Kramer, Peter (Article)No Stanley Kubrick film has exerted a greater influence on mainstream cinema than 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), mainly by convincing filmmakers, studio executives and cinemagoers of the artistic and commercial potential ... -
The General
Kramer, Peter (Book)A meticulous recreation of a famous episode from the American Civil War, The General (1926) was co-written and directed by Buster Keaton, who also starred in it as a Southern locomotive engineer whose life is disrupted by ... -
“Grease is the Word”: Exploring a Cultural Phenomenon
Kramer, Peter (Book)Bringing together a group of international scholars from diverse academic backgrounds, this edited collection analyses the cultural phenomenon Grease. From the stage show’s first appearance in 1971 and the Hollywood film ... -
The Hollywood Renaissance: Revisiting American Cinema's Most Celebrated Era
Kramer, Peter; Tzioumakis, Yannis (Book)In December 1967, Time magazine put Bonnie and Clyde on its cover and proudly declared that Hollywood cinema was undergoing a ‘renaissance’. For the next few years, a wide range of formally and thematically challenging ... -
’I’ll be right here!’ Dealing with Emotional Trauma in and through E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial
Kramer, Peter (Book chapter)Upon its initial release, Steven Spielberg's E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982) was widely discussed in the United States in terms of its strong appeal to different age groups, with reference both to universal developmental ... -
The Legacy of Dr. Strangelove: Stanley Kubrick, Science Fiction, and the Future of Humanity
Kramer, Peter (Book chapter)In this chapter, I examine how contemporary American viewers responded to Stanley Kubrick's comedy Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) in the context of widespread fears about nuclear ... -
Spielberg and Kubrick
Kramer, Peter (Book chapter)The first part of this chapter discusses the relationship between Stanley Kubrick and Steven Spielberg in terms of the many parallels in their early careers. The second part examines their work in the late 1970s and early ... -
Spiritual Science Fiction for the Whole Family: Spielberg, Close Encounters of the Third Kind and 1970s Hollywood
Kramer, Peter (Book chapter)In this essay I examine Steven Spielberg’s contribution to the fundamental reorientation of Hollywood cinema in the late 1970s (back towards all-inclusive family entertainment) by taking a closer look at the critical ... -
Stanley Kubrick and the Internationalisation of Postwar Hollywood
Kramer, Peter (Article)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 ... -
Stanley Kubrick: Known and Unknown
Kramer, Peter (Article)Since the opening of the Stanley Kubrick Archive at the University of the Arts London in 2007, work on the film-maker has expanded dramatically. With important precursors in previous academic as well as non-academic ... -
Stanley Kubrick: New Perspectives
Ljujic, Tatjana; Kramer, Peter; Daniels, Richard (Book)Starkly beautiful and thematically provocative, Stanley Kubrick’s work has exerted a strong influence on audiences, critics and filmmakers all over the world. Ranging from low-budget noir thrillers to spectacular historical ... -
Toy Story, Pixar and Contemporary Hollywood
Kramer, Peter (Book chapter)In this chapter I situate the Toy Story films in the context of Pixar’s overall output, and also within hit patterns at the US box office and in Hollywood’s export markets. I pay particular attention to the increasing box ...