Contents

Introduction

ROBERT KOLKER

1 2001: The Critical Reception and the Generation Gap

R. BARTON PALMER

2 Auteur with a Capital A

JAMES GILBERT

3 The Gravity of 2001: A Space Odyssey

J. P. TELOTTE

4 Kubrick in Space

STEPHEN MAMBER

5 Of Men and Monoliths: Science Fiction, Gender, and 2001: A Space Odyssey

BARRY KEITH GRANT

6 The Cinematographic Brain in 2001: A Space Odyssey

MARCIA LANDY

7 Reading HAL: Representation and Artificial Intelligence

MICHAEL MATEAS

8 Kubrick’s Obscene Shadows

SUSAN WHITE

9 Double Minds and Double Binds in Stanley Kubrick’s Fairy Tale

GEORGE TOLES

Notes on Contributors

Production Details

Index

Photo gallery follows p. 104