In this session, we will read and discuss Raleigh Whitinger and Susan Ingram's "Schnitzler, Kubrick, and Fidelio", originally published in The Mosaic Journal (University of Mantioba), and available for free on the marvelous JSTOR site.
"With this, the film has also opened a provocative chapter in the debate about how film adapts literary works. We argue against an initial wave of negative responses, which faulted Kubrick's alterations as capricious, his use of nudity as anti-feminist
(e.g., Decter; Denby; Saur; Siegel), and his attempt to set dated Freudian issues in contemporary New York (e.g., Decter; Denby), and in line with later, more positive analy-
ses (Borchardt; Kreider; Leeman; Pocock; Siegel; Taubin). We do so by calling attention to the ingeniously constructive role that the film's major changes play in intensifying the original story's critical dialogue with the myths and conventions of male mastery
and in giving the original's portrayal of female figures a markedly more..."
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