*DELEGATE PASSES ARE NOW AVAILBLE FOR:*
*Stanley Kubrick: A Retrospective*
*11-13 May 2016, De Montfort University, Leicester*
*Keynotes:*
*Jan Harlan, Professor Robert Kolker, Professor Nathan Abrams and Peter
Kramer*
*Please click here to register for attendance at this conference
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Delegate passes cover the conference fee and lunch and coffees across the
three days. Accommodation needs to be booked by the delegates.The full
programme for the conference will be published in due course.*
This three-day conference aims to take stock of the rise of the new
scholarly perspectives of filmmaker Stanley Kubrick, and to survey the wide
field of interdisciplinary research on his work. Taking place from 11 to 13
May 2016, the conference will feature a special keynote from Kubrick's
executive producer, Jan Harlan.
The conference will feature keynotes from:
*Jan Harlan*, Kubrick’s brother-in-law and executive producer from *Barry
Lyndon* (1975) through to *Eyes Wide Shut *(1999), and who continues to
tirelessly promote and celebrate the life and work of Kubrick.
*Professor Robert P Kolker*, author of the acclaimed *A Cinema of
Loneliness* (4th ed. 2011), featuring the chapter about Kubrick, 'Tectonics
of the Mechanical Man'. Kolker is a renowned Kubrick scholar, with numerous
other works, including the edited volume *Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space
Odyssey: New Essays *(2006).
*Professor Nathan Abrams*, having written about Kubrick’s socio-cultural
influences, including ‘Becoming a Macho Mensch: Stanley Kubrick, Spartacus
and 1950s Jewish Masculinity’ (2015) and ‘An Alternative New York Jewish
Intellectual: Stanley Kubrick’s Cultural Critique’ (2015).
*Peter Krämer*, who has written extensively on Kubrick, including two BFI
Classics (2001: A Space Odyssey (2010); Dr Strangelove or: How I Learned to
Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (2014)) and continues to provide new
insights and perspectives into his career.
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*James Fenwick*
*Cinema and Television History Research Centre*
*De Montfort University*
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