Analyzes Stanley Kubrick's films from a variety of perspectives. This is a study of one of the controversial filmmakers of the twentieth century. It ends with three viewpoints on Kubrick's final film, "Eyes Wide Shut", placing it in the contexts of film history, the history and theory of psychoanalysis, and the sociology of sex and power.
This work shows how the ideal of practical reason can reconcile academia's research aims with public expectations for universities - the preparation of citizens, the training of professionals and the communication of a cultural inheritance.