Abstract
Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut (1999), adapted from Arthur Schnitzler’s phantasmagoric Traumnovelle (1926), chronicles a few days in the life of a perfectly wealthy, healthy and beautiful high-society couple, Alice and Bill Harford (played respectively by Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise). Transposed from Schnitzler’s early-twentieth-century Vienna to fin-desiècle New York City, Kubrick’s nocturnal ‘after hours’ experience takes place in the aftermath of a Christmas party, during which a husband’s inability to contain an excessive obsession and sexual jealousy places a seemingly ideal marriage on the verge of collapse. Eyes Wide Shut, I will argue in this chapter, is a film
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Eyes Wide Shut |
| Subtitle of host publication | Behind Stanley Kubrick's Masterpiece |
| Editors | Nathan Abrams, Georgina Orgill |
| Place of Publication | Liverpool |
| Publisher | Liverpool University Press |
| Chapter | 6 |
| Pages | 113-128 |
| Number of pages | 16 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781837645152 |
| State | Published - 2023 |