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Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange

Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange brings together new and critically

informed essays about one of the most powerful, important, and con-

troversial ﬁlms ever made. Following an introduction that provides an

overview of the ﬁlm and its production history, a suite of essays examine

the literary origins of the work, the nature of cinematic violence, ques-

tions of gender and the ﬁlm’s treatment of sexuality, and the difﬁculties

of adapting an invented language (“nadsat”) for the screen. This volume

also includes two contemporary and conﬂicting reviews by Roger Hughes

and Pauline Kael, a detailed glossary of “nadsat,” and stills from the ﬁlm.

Stuart Y. McDougal is DeWitt Wallace Professor of English at Macalaster

College in Minneapolis. Former president of the American Comparative

Literature Association, he is the author of Made into Movies: From Literature

to Film and co-editor of Play it Again Sam: Retakes on Remakes , among other

writings on ﬁlm and literature.

THE CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS FILM HANDBOOKS SERIES

General Editor: Andrew Horton, University of Oklahoma

Each CAMBRIDGE FILM HANDBOOK is intended to focus on a single ﬁlm

from a variety of theoretical, critical, and contextual perspectives. This

“prism” approach is designed to give students and general readers valu-

able background and insight into the cinematic, artistic, cultural, and

sociopolitical importance of individual ﬁlms by including essays by lead-

ing ﬁlm scholars and critics. Furthermore, these handbooks by their very

nature are meant to help the reader better grasp the nature of the critical

and theoretical discourse on cinema as an art form, as a visual medium,

and as a cultural product. Filmographies and selected bibliographies are

added to help the reader go further on his or her own exploration of the

ﬁlm under consideration.

VOLUMES IN THE SERIES

Buster Keaton’s “Sherlock Jr.” ed. by Andrew Horton, Loyola University,

New Orleans

Spike Lee’s “Do the Right Thing,” ed. by Mark Reid, University of Florida

Ozu’s “Tokyo Story,” ed. by David Desser, University of Illinois,

Urbana–Champaign

“ The Godfather Trilogy, ” ed. by Nick Browne, University of California,

Los Angeles

Hitchcock’s “Rear Window, ” ed. by John Belton

Godard’s “Pierrot le Fou, ” ed. by David Wills, Louisiana State University

Bunuel’s “The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie,” ed. by Marcha Kinder,

University of Southern California

Bergman’s “Persona, ” ed. by Lloyd Michaels, Allegheny College

“ Bonnie and Clyde, ” ed. by Lester Friedman, Syracuse University

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