Term Paper

In this essay, the author

• Explains that the industrial revolution sparked the birth of modernity. the theoretical renaissance and the 18th century philosophical enlightenment set a foundation for technological and philosophical europe.
• Describes stanley kubrick as one of the greatest post-modern filmmakers. he challenged the studio system that was born from the postindustrial era.
• Explains that karl marx was one of the most influential thinkers on the subject of post modernism. the post industrial period began somewhere in between the second world war and the 1960s.

• Explains that the industrial revolution sparked the birth of modernity. the theoretical renaissance and the 18th century philosophical enlightenment set a foundation for technological and philosophical europe.
• Describes stanley kubrick as one of the greatest post-modern filmmakers. he challenged the studio system that was born from the postindustrial era.
• Explains that karl marx was one of the most influential thinkers on the subject of post modernism. the post industrial period began somewhere in between the second world war and the 1960s.
• Analyzes how postmodernism has enriched film theory and its analysis by calling attention to a stylistic shift toward media conscious cinema.
• Argues that the modernist avant-garde modes of analysis with the cinema as the instigator of systematic breakthroughs and the modes developed for classical cinema would no longer work. ideas and messages are placed subliminally to compensate for the weakening of narrative time.
• Opines that film is an inevitable tool of public education and entertainment. the hollow space in society establishes the content of postmodernism.
• Analyzes how stanley kubrick's 1968 film 2001: a space odyssey gained a massive following despite some major critics' negative reviews.
• Explains that 2001: a space odyssey's critics criticized the film for not following traditional hollywood conventions. they reacted with responses geared to conventionally shaped films.
• Analyzes how the "newsday" film critic joseph gelmis wrote two reviews within days of each other reversing his position from his original review, which stated "space odyssey fails most gloriously."
• Analyzes how kubrick's barry lyndon epitomizes the definition of an art film, occupying a different economic and cultural space from the run-of-the-mill commercial production.
• States that barry lyndon appealed to historians and art connoisseurs because it was a pastiche of classic art. kubrick incorporated many pieces of artwork from the time period to push the story along.
• Analyzes how kubrick uses the visuals in a scene of the film where the protagonist barry meets with lord wendover is pure genius.
• Describes how kubrick experimented with lighting and cinematography in a way that no other director had ever done before.
• Analyzes how kubrick uses classical music in most of his films, starting the foundation of music video making by his creative style of montage.
• Analyzes how kubrick utilized famous classical music pieces for the score of 2001.
• Explains that classical hollywood cinema calls for brief, associative uses of music that cue the audience into what event might happen next.
• Analyzes how kubrick's use of music in the film was revolutionary in that scenes went on with only musical accompaniment and no dialogue while the narrative developed on an almost subconscious level.
• Analyzes how kubrick uses music to tell the story, rather than limiting the score to offer cues to the audience of what might happen next or set a mood.
• Explains that kubrick's independence from the classic hollywood style of filmmaking made him a memorable post-modernist auteur because of his use of high culture and pop culture.