Opening Eyes Wide Shut: Genre, Reception, and Kubrick's Last Film

Both men were sons of doctors, growing up in Jewish families that integrated into the middle class of the dominant society, but that also witnessed a growing tide of anti-Semitism. Schnitzler actually attended medical school with Sigmund Freud (although he later dropped out to pursue a career writin...

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Published inJournal of film and video Vol. 62; no. 4; pp. 31 - 46
Main Author Ransom, Amy J
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Englewood University of Illinois Press 22.12.2010
University Film and Video Association
Subjects
Criticism and interpretation
Filmmakers
Freud, Sigmund (1856-1939)
Kubrick, Stanley
Motion pictures
Physicians
Schnitzler, Arthur (1862-1931)
Social classes
Works
United States
New York
Quebec Canada
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Summary:Both men were sons of doctors, growing up in Jewish families that integrated into the middle class of the dominant society, but that also witnessed a growing tide of anti-Semitism. Schnitzler actually attended medical school with Sigmund Freud (although he later dropped out to pursue a career writing for the stage) and incorporated psychoanalytic theories, in particular those concerning dreams and the unconscious, into his works (see Cohn; Luprecht 1-2; Santner; Swales 24 and i4iff; Urbach 25).
ISSN:0742-4671
1934-6018
1934-6018
DOI:10.1353/jfv.2010.0009