Kubrick stare
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Named for its frequent use in the films of director Stanley Kubrick.[1][2][3]
Noun[edit]
Kubrick stare (plural Kubrick stares)
- The act of looking at the viewer with head tilted downward and eyes peering upward from beneath the eyebrows.
- 2017, Don Perez, "Librarian of horror", The Union (El Camino College), 18 May 2017, page 3 (image caption):
- Analu Cruze-Josephides, librarian and actor exemplifies his rendition of the “Kubrick stare,” a technique synonymous with villainous characters he plays in films.
- 2017 June 8, Marty Fugate, “'The Remnant' offers a cure for Vietnam War amnesia”, in Arts + Entertainment, page 9:
- […] Vincent D'Onofrio goes off the deep end with a malevolent Kubrick stare.
- 2018 April 26, Chris McCoy, “The Professional”, in Memphis Flyer, page 34:
- Ramsay's work is as chilling as it is technically flawless. She's an avid practitioner of the Kubrick Stare […]
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Kubrick stare.
- 2017, Don Perez, "Librarian of horror", The Union (El Camino College), 18 May 2017, page 3 (image caption):
References[edit]
- ^ Harvey Cormier, "2001: Modern Art, and Modern Philosophy", in Philosophy and Film (eds. Cynthia A. Freeland & Thomas E. Wartenberg), page 194
- ^ Jeremy Mark Robinson, The Sacred Cinema of Andrei Tarkovsky, page 379
- ^ Maarten Coëgnarts, Film as Embodied Art: Bodily Meaning in the Cinema of Stanley Kubrick, unnumbered pages