Stanley Kubrick and the internationalisation of post-war Hollywood

This essay examines the early career, up to 1960, of the Jewish-American filmmaker Kubrick, covering his first five features as well as his short films, his projects and also, very briefly, his initial work as a photojournalist. detailed references to Fear and Desire (1953), Paths of Glory (1957) and The Lieutenant (a script that came close to production in 1959), it discusses ’s strong interest in twentieth-century German and Austrian culture and , his ‘procedural’ approach to stories about World Wars I and II, and the internationalisation of the content and production circumstances of work. These developments are discussed in relation to box office trends and opinion in the United States as well as to changes in Hollywood’s mode of and key markets in the post-war era.