Stanley Kubrick's Quest for the Heroic
Turning Wartime Lies into Aryan Papers
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12914792 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sue Vice (0000-0002-4772-7739, University of Sheffield, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 328-345 |
| Publication date | 2024-07-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of War and Culture Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1752-6272 • E-ISSN: 1752-6280 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17526272.2024.2360286 |
| OpenAlex | W4400324662 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 7 |
This article asks why Stanley Kubrick's longstanding wish to direct the film version of Louis Begley's 1991 novel Wartime Lies never came to fruition. In Begley's novel, the protagonist Maciek recounts the experience of living in hiding under a false identity in Nazi-occupied Poland. Kubrick drafted a series of quite different plotlines and conclusions for the film version, to be called Aryan Papers, in which Maciek's aunt Tania takes a highly dramatic role in their destiny. The more Kubrick changed Aryan Papers, in response to the pressure of Hollywood expectations and the cultural valorization of active Holocaust resistance, the less it resembled the very work he had chosen to adapt. This impasse shows why the director could not ultimately bring Aryan Papers to the screen
Aesthetics · Ancient history · Art · Art history · Aryan race · Destiny (ISS module · German · Hollywood · Identity (music · Literature · Nazism · The Holocaust · Theology · Cinema and Media Studies · History · Literature, Film, and Journalism Analysis · Philosophy · Radio, Podcasts, and Digital Media
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |