Creativity and commerce: Michael Klinger and new film history

The Stanley Kubrick Archive: A Dossier of New Research

“…After all, it is by understanding the constraints of producing a film that, as Andrew Spicer suggests, 'reveals something about the parameters as to what was possible, acceptable or viable'. 10 As Krämer shows, Kubrick's unmade projects influenced and intersected with his released films. The majority of both his unrealized and realized projects were adaptations of recent novels by male authors originally published in English or German, and adapted by the director himself with the aid of male writes who were not trained scriptwriters.…”