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The work of Stanley Kubrick amounts to a sustained reflection on the male condition: past, present, and future. The persistent theme of his filmmaking is less violence or sex than it is the pressurized exertion of masculinity in unusual or extreme circumstances, where it may be taxed or exaggerated to various effects, tragic and comic—or metamorphosed, distorted, and even undone.

Stanley Kubrick was born on July 26, 1928, in Manhattan, New York City. The son of Jacob Leonard Kubrick, a physician, and Sadie Gertrude Kubrick, Stanley grew up in the Bronx during the Great Depression. From an early age, Kubrick showed a keen interest in the arts, particularly photography and chess, two passions that would significantly influence his later work in film. Kubrick's father introduced him to photography when he gifted him a camera for his thirteenth birthday. This sparked a lifelong fascination with visual storytelling. As a teenager, Kubrick became an avid photographer, often ...