2001: Kubrick's Odyssey of Film History

Silva examines "The Dawn of Man:," the first part of Stanley Kubrick's 2001 Space Odyssey which demonstrates the growth of cinematic narrative form up to the classical system generally developed by D. W. Griffith and others. Following this "Dawn" little of any real import se...

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Published in:Quarterly review of film and video 2022-04, Vol.39 (3), p.656-689
Main Author: Silva, Arturo
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Cinematography
Film studies
Kubrick, Stanley
Motion picture criticism
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Summary:Silva examines "The Dawn of Man:," the first part of Stanley Kubrick's 2001 Space Odyssey which demonstrates the growth of cinematic narrative form up to the classical system generally developed by D. W. Griffith and others. Following this "Dawn" little of any real import seems to have happened in human evolution aside from the development of even more tools (spaceships); the same is true for cinema, which has devolved into a few genres, which 2001 allusively and abstractly deals with in its long middle section. All the while too, we witness how deeply the world of 2001 is awash in "all things cinema"--from vast multiplex-seeming buildings filled with innumerable screen-like windows to a variety of "smaller" or functional types of films--and how this "being-in-cinema" works to determine the fate of the hero/astronaut.
ISSN:1050-9208
1543-5326
DOI:10.1080/10509208.2021.1971040