2001 Between Kubrick and Clarke: The Genesis, Making and Authorship of a Masterpiece, by Filippo Ulivieri and Simone Odino, sits alongside eleven other books about 2001 on the Dateline Bangkok bookshelves. (The others are Filming The Future, The Making of Kubrick’s 2001, The Making of 2001, 2001 Memories, Moonwatcher’s Memoir, Are We Alone?, 2001, The Lost Science, The 2001 File, The Making of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001, and Space Odyssey.)
Despite being the latest of at least a dozen books on the subject, 2001 between Kubrick and Clarke offers a original analysis of the making of Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece and his collaboration with Arthur C. Clarke. It provides “for the first time a complete account of the creative odyssey undertaken by Kubrick and Clarke,” including previously-unseen material from both the Kubrick Archive and, especially, Clarke’s papers at the Smithsonian.
Most accounts of the production of 2001 are largely anecdotal, relying on decades-old recollections, though 2001 between Kubrick and Clarke takes a reassuringly systematic approach, verifying every fact via contemporaneous press reports and production documents. The book’s most substantial section offers a unique chronology of 2001’s production, meticulously researched and thoroughly detailed. There is also an in-depth examination of the often-overlooked period following Dr. Strangelove, when Kubrick was formulating his plans for 2001.
2001 between Kubrick and Clarke was first published in Italian, as 2001 tra Kubrick e Clarke: Genesi, realizzazione e paternità di un capolavoro. Ulivieri also wrote the excellent Stanley Kubrick and Me (Stanley Kubrick e me), the memoir of Kubrick’s personal assistant Emilio D’Alessandro.
Despite being the latest of at least a dozen books on the subject, 2001 between Kubrick and Clarke offers a original analysis of the making of Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece and his collaboration with Arthur C. Clarke. It provides “for the first time a complete account of the creative odyssey undertaken by Kubrick and Clarke,” including previously-unseen material from both the Kubrick Archive and, especially, Clarke’s papers at the Smithsonian.
Most accounts of the production of 2001 are largely anecdotal, relying on decades-old recollections, though 2001 between Kubrick and Clarke takes a reassuringly systematic approach, verifying every fact via contemporaneous press reports and production documents. The book’s most substantial section offers a unique chronology of 2001’s production, meticulously researched and thoroughly detailed. There is also an in-depth examination of the often-overlooked period following Dr. Strangelove, when Kubrick was formulating his plans for 2001.
2001 between Kubrick and Clarke was first published in Italian, as 2001 tra Kubrick e Clarke: Genesi, realizzazione e paternità di un capolavoro. Ulivieri also wrote the excellent Stanley Kubrick and Me (Stanley Kubrick e me), the memoir of Kubrick’s personal assistant Emilio D’Alessandro.