Ebook: Making time in Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon: art, history and empire

Considered by critics to be Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece, Barry Lyndon has suffered from scholarly and popular neglect. Maria Pramaggiore argues that one key reason that this film remains unappreciated, even by Kubrick aficionados, is that its transnational and intermedial contexts have not been fully explored. Taking a novel approach, she looks at the film from a transnational perspective -- as a foreign production shot in Ireland and an adaptation of a British novel by an American director about an Irish subject. Pramaggiore argues that, in Barry Lyndon, Kubrick develops his richest philoso.;Introduction -- Barry Lyndon and aesthetic time -- Adapting Barry Lyndon: a tale of two auteurs -- Paternal crisis, or history as succession -- Transnational topographies: Barry Lyndon as Irish odyssey -- The rhythm and the rest: painting, cinema, stillness -- Untimely cinema: Barry Lyndon and the 1970s.