Stanley Kubrick bibliography

Kubrick in 1949 while working as a photographer for Look magazine

A list of books and essays about Stanley Kubrick and his films.

Biographies and interviews

• Baxter, John (1998). Stanley Kubrick: A Biography. London, England: HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-00-638445-8.
• D'Alessandro, Emilio; Ulivieri, Filippo (5 September 2012). Stanley Kubrick e me. Trent'anni accanto a lui. Rivelazioni e cronache inedite dell'assistente personale di un genio [Stanley Kubrick and Me: Thirty Years Next to Him – Revelations and Unreleased Chronicles by a Genius' Personal Assistant] (in Italian). Milano, Italy: Il Saggiatore. ISBN 978-88-6576-239-4.
• Herr, Michael (2001). Kubrick. London, England: Pan Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-330-48113-7.
• Kolker, Robert P.; Abrams, Nathan (2024). Kubrick: An Odyssey. New York, N.Y.: Pegasus. ISBN 978-1639366248.
• Kubrick, Christiane (2002). Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures. Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company. ISBN 978-0-8212-2815-9.
• LoBrutto, Vincent (April 1999). Stanley Kubrick: A Biography. Boston, Mass.: Da Capo. ISBN 978-0-306-80906-4.
• Lyons, Viktoria; Fitzgerald, Michael (1 January 2005). "Stanley Kubrick (1928-1999)". Asperger Syndrome: A Gift or a Curse?. Hauppauge, N.Y.: Nova Biomedical. pp. 185–195. ISBN 978-1-59454-387-6.
• Mikics, David (18 August 2020). Stanley Kubrick: American Filmmaker. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-22440-5.
• Molina Foix, Vicente (30 May 2019). Kubrick en casa [Kubrick at Home] (in Spanish). Barcelona, Spain: Anagrama. ISBN 978-8433916297.
• Phillips, Gene D. (1 January 2001). Stanley Kubrick: Interviews. Jackson, Miss.: University Press of Mississippi. ISBN 978-1-57806-297-3.
• Ulivieri, Filippo (6 November 2024). Sulla Luna con Stanley Kubrick: miti, leggende e verità sul mostro sacro del cinema [On the Moon with Stanley Kubrick: Myths, Legends and Truths About Cinema's Sacred Monster] (in Italian). Loreto, Italy: StreetLib. ISBN 979-1223076774.
• Ulivieri, Filippo (15 December 2024). Cracking the Kube: Solving the Mysteries of Stanley Kubrick Through Archival Research. Independently published. ISBN 979-8344213019.
• Walker, Alexander (1 January 1972). Stanley Kubrick Directs (Expanded ed.). San Diego, Cal.: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. ISBN 978-0156848923.
• Walker, Alexander; Taylor, Sybil; Ruchti, Ulrich (1 September 1999). Stanley Kubrick, Director: A Visual Analysis. New York, N.Y.: W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 978-0393046014.

General

• Vv.Aa. (1 April 2011). Stanley Kubrick: Eyes Wide Open – Guide de l'exposition [Stanley Kubrick: Eyes Wide Open – Guide to the Exhibition]. Special issue of Trois couleurs on the occasion of the Stanley Kubrick exhibition at the Cinémathèque française (in French). Paris, France: MK2 Multimédia. ISBN 978-2351360132.
• Vv.Aa. (10 November 2020). El cine de Stanley Kubrick [Stanley Kubrick's Cinema] (in Spanish). Málaga, Spain: Cult Books. ISBN 978-8412253870.
• Abrams, Jerold (4 May 2007). The Philosophy of Stanley Kubrick. Lexington, Ky.: University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 978-0-8131-7256-9.
• Abrams, Nathan (19 April 2018). Stanley Kubrick: New York Jewish Intellectual. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press. ISBN 978-0813587103.
• Abrams, Nathan; Hunter, I.Q., eds. (2021). The Bloomsbury Companion to Stanley Kubrick. London, England: Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 978-1501343629.
• Abrams, Nathan; Szaniawski, Jeremi, eds. (October 2004). Kubrick's Mitteleuropa: The Central European Imaginary in the Films of Stanley Kubrick. New York, N.Y.: Berghahn. ISBN 978-1805396451.
• Andersons, Sybil (July 1988). An Architectural Direction, Four Filmmakers: Architecture in the Films of Antonioni, Hitchcock, Kubrick and Polanski (BA dissertation. Printed report, videocassette). Sydney, NSW: University of Sydney. OCLC 222602128.
• Azulys, Sam (16 April 2011). Stanley Kubrick : une odyssée philosophique [Stanley Kubrick: A Philosophical Odyssey] (in French). Chatou, France: Transparence. ISBN 978-2350510620.
• Bane, Charles (2006). Viewing Novels, Reading Films: Stanley Kubrick and the Art of Adaptation as Interpretation. Baton Rouge, La.: Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College. ISBN 978-0-542-81110-4.
• Bailey, Peter J., ed. (29 July 2016). Stanley Kubrick. Critical Insights Film. Hackensack, N.J.: Salem. ISBN 978-1682171080.
• Becker, Andreas (22 February 2024). Scham und Schuld in der filmischen Dramaturgie: Überlegungen zur Darstellung bei Alexander Kluge und Khavn de la Cruz, Edgar Reitz, Frank Wedekind, G.W. Pabst, Günther Anders, Stanley Kubrick, Christian Petzold und Nagisa Ōshima [Shame and Guilt in Film Dramaturgy: Reflections on Representation by Alexander Kluge and Khavn de la Cruz, Edgar Reitz, Frank Wedekind, G.W. Pabst, Günther Anders, Stanley Kubrick, Christian Petzold and Nagisa Oshima] (in German). Marburg, Germany: Büchner. ISBN 978-3963173721.
• Berg, Nicole M. (2020). Discovering Kubrick's Symbolism: The Secrets of the Films. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company. ISBN 978-1-4766-8049-1.
• Bernardi, Sandro (19 November 2020). Kubrick e il cinema come arte del visibile [Kubrick and Cinema as the Art of the Visible] (in Italian) (Revised and expanded ed.). Imola, Italy: Cue Press. ISBN 978-8855100885.
• Botz-Bornstein, Thorsten (21 August 2008). Films and Dreams: Tarkovsky, Bergman, Sokurov, Kubrick, and Wong Kar-Wai. Lanham, Md.: Lexington. ISBN 978-0739121887.
• Broderick, Mick, ed. (2019). The Kubrick Legacy. Abingdon-on-Thames, England: Routledge. ISBN 978-0367181420.
• Buache, Freddy (1978). Le cinéma anglais : autour de Kubrick et Losey [English Cinema: On Kubrick and Losey] (in French). Lausanne, Switzerland: L'âge d'homme. ISBN 978-2866423926. OCLC 5221200.
• Carocci, Enrico (14 February 2019). Stanley Kubrick (in Italian). Venezia, Italy: Marsilio. ISBN 978-8831785761.
• Carr, Jeremy (June 2023). Kubrick and Control: Authority, Order and Independence in the Films and Working Life of Stanley Kubrick. Liverpool, England: Liverpool University Press. ISBN 978-1802078565.
• Castle, Alison; Kubrick, Stanley (2005). The Stanley Kubrick Archives. Köln, Germany: Taschen. ISBN 978-3-8228-2284-5.
• Chion, Michel (2005). Stanley Kubrick : l'humain, ni plus ni moins [Stanley Kubrick: The Human Being, Neither More nor Less] (in French). Paris, France: Cahiers du cinéma. ISBN 978-2866423926.
• Ciment, Michel (18 September 2003). Kubrick: The Definitive Edition. London, England: Faber and Faber. ISBN 978-0-571-21108-1.
• Cocks, Geoffrey (2004). The Wolf at the Door: Stanley Kubrick, History, & the Holocaust. Lausanne, Switzerland: Lang. ISBN 978-0-8204-7115-0.
• Cocks, Geoffrey; Diedrick, James; Perusek, Glenn (1 August 2006). Depth of Field: Stanley Kubrick, Film, and the Uses of History. Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 978-0-299-21613-9.
• Coëgnarts, Maarten. Film as Embodied Art: Bodily Meaning in the Cinema of Stanley Kubrick. Boston, Mass.: Academic Studies. ISBN 978-1618118363.
• Colombani, Elsa, ed. (16 October 2020). A Critical Companion to Stanley Kubrick. Critical Companions to Contemporary Directors. Lanham, Md.: Lexington. ISBN 978-1793613769.
• Costanzo, Paolo; Luglio, Carlo (3 August 2013). Le donne di Kubrick [Kubrick's Women] (in Italian). Morrisville, N.C.: Lulu. ISBN 978-1291510867.
• Coyle, Wallace (1980). Stanley Kubrick, a Guide to References and Resources. Boston, Mass.: G. K. Hall. ISBN 978-0-8161-8058-5.
• Daniels, Richard; Ljujić, Tatjana; Kramer, Peter, eds. (7 July 2005). Stanley Kubrick: New Perspectives. London, England: Black Dog. ISBN 978-1908966421.
• Devries, Daniel (1973). The Films of Stanley Kubrick. Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B. Eerdmans. ISBN 978-0802814814.
• Duncan, Paul (1999). Stanley Kubrick. The Pocket Essentials. London, England: Pocket Essentials. ISBN 978-3-8365-2775-0.
• Duncan, Paul (2011). Stanley Kubrick: Visual Poet 1928–1999. Köln, Germany: Taschen. ISBN 978-3-8365-2775-0.
• Eichhorn, Bernd, ed. (2004). Stanley Kubrick. Vol. 20 of Kinematograph, in connection with the Stanley Kubrick exhibition organized by the Deutsches Filmmuseum and the Deutsches Architekturmuseum. Frankfurt am Main, Germany: Deutsches Filmmuseum. ISBN 978-3887990695.
• Eugeni, Ruggero (2015). Invito al cinema di Kubrick [Invitation to Kubrick's Cinema] (in Italian). Milano, Italy: Mursia. ISBN 9788842554424.
• Extence, Gavin (September 2008). Cinematic Thought: The Representation of Subjective Processes in the Films of Bergman, Resnais and Kubrick (PDF) (PhD thesis). Sheffield, England: University of Sheffield. OCLC 966456748. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 July 2024. Retrieved 20 December 2024 – via White Rose eTheses Online.
• Falsetto, Mario (1996). Perspectives on Stanley Kubrick. Boston, Mass.: G. K. Hall. ISBN 978-0-8161-1991-2.
• Falsetto, Mario (1 January 2001). Stanley Kubrick: A Narrative and Stylistic Analysis. Santa Barbara, Cal.: Greenwood. ISBN 978-0-275-96974-5.
• Felden, Thorsten (August 2007). Man/Machine Interaction in the Work of Stanley Kubrick. München, Germany: Grin. ISBN 978-3-638-72193-6.
• Fenwick, James (2020). Stanley Kubrick Produces. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press. ISBN 9781978814882.
• Fenwick, James (4 June 2024). Archive Histories: An Archaeology of the Stanley Kubrick Archive. Liverpool, England: Liverpool University Press. ISBN 978-1835537343.
• Fiotti, Francesco (7 May 2021). Kubrick e Caravaggio, sabotatori del reale [Kubrick and Caravaggio, Saboteurs of Reality] (in Italian). Milano, Italy: Mimesis. ISBN 978-8857575049.
• Fischer, Ralf Michael (2009). Raum und Zeit im filmischen Oeuvre von Stanley Kubrick [Space and Time in Stanley Kubrick's Cinematic Oeuvre] (in German). Berlin, Germany: Gebr. Mann. ISBN 978-3-7861-2598-3.
• Fraisse, Philippe (3 June 2010). Le cinéma au bord du monde : une approche de Stanley Kubrick [Cinema at the Edge of the World: An Approach to Stanley Kubrick] (in French). Paris, France: Gallimard. ISBN 978-2070126682.
• García Mainar, Luis M. (2000). Narrative and Stylistic Patterns in the Films of Stanley Kubrick. Rochester, N.Y.: Camden House. ISBN 978-1-57113-265-9.
• Gauthier, Brigitte, ed. (2012). Kubrick, les films [Kubrick: The Films] (in French). Paris, France: L'Entretemps. ISBN 978-2355391385.
• Ghezzi, Enrico (21 March 2007). Stanley Kubrick. Il Castoro Cinema (in Italian) (5th ed.). Milano, Italy: Il Castoro. ISBN 978-8880334170.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)
• Giuliani, Pierre (1990). Stanley Kubrick (in French). Paris, France: Rivages. ISBN 978-2869302952.
• Guerra, Michele (2007). Il meccanismo indifferente: la concezione della storia nel cinema di Stanley Kubrick [The Indifferent Mechanism: The conception of History in the Cinema of Stanley Kubrick] (in Italian). Roma, Italy: Aracne. ISBN 978-8854809895.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)
• Hornick, Neil (30 April 2024). The Magic Eye: The Cinema of Stanley Kubrick. Foreword by Filippo Ulivieri. London, England: Sticking Place. ISBN 978-1942782513.
• Howard, James (1999). Stanley Kubrick Companion. London, England: Batsford. ISBN 978-0-7134-8487-8.
• Hughes, David (31 May 2013). The Complete Kubrick. London, England: Ebury. ISBN 978-1-4481-3321-5.
• Inoue, Yoshikazu (2022). Sutanri Kyuburikku eiga posuta-a-kai: senden posuta- made mo kontoro-rushita otoko スタンリー・キューブリック映画ポスター・アーカイヴ: 宣伝ポスターまでもコントロールした男 [Stanley Kubrick Film Poster Archives: The Man Who Controlled Even Advertising Posters] (in Japanese). Tokyo, Japan: DU. ISBN 978-4866471679.
• Jacke, Andreas (February 2009). Stanley Kubrick: eine Deutung der Konzepte seiner Filme [Stanley Kubrick: An Interpretation of the Concepts in His Films] (in German). Gießen, Germany: Psychosozial. ISBN 978-3-89806-856-7.
• Jansen, Peter W.; Schütte, Wolfram, eds. (1984). Stanley Kubrick. Reihe Film no. 18 (in German). München, Germany: Hanser. ISBN 978-3446126398.
• Jayamanne, Laleen (2021). Poetic Cinema and the Spirit of the Gift in the Films of Pabst, Parajanov, Kubrick, and Ruiz. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Amsterdam University Press. ISBN 978-9048552825.
• Jenkins, Greg (1 January 1997). Stanley Kubrick and the Art of Adaptation: Three Novels, Three Films. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company. ISBN 978-0-7864-0281-6.
• Kagan, Norman (29 February 2000). Cinema of Stanley Kubrick (3rd ed.). London, England: Bloomsbury. ISBN 978-0-8264-1243-0.
• Kaul, Susanne; Palmier, Jean-Pierre (1 September 2010). Stanley Kubrick Einführung in Seine Filme und Filmästhetik [Stanley Kubrick: Introduction to His Films and Film Aesthetics] (in German). Paderborn, Germany: Fink Wilhelm. ISBN 978-3770547524.
• Keppler, Maja; Reichmann, Hans-Peter, eds. (2007). Stanley Kubrick (Catalog published to accompany the exhibition of the same name on 31 March–4 July 2004 at the Deutsches Filmmuseum in Frankfurt and on 20 January–18 April 2005 at the Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin, Germany) (2nd ed.). Frankfurt am Main, Germany: Deutsches Filmmuseum. ISBN 978-0367181420.
• Kinney, Judy Lee (1982). Text and Pretext: Stanley Kubrick's Adaptations (PhD thesis). Los Angeles, Cal.: University of California, Los Angeles. OCLC 13178053.
• Kolker, Robert (7 July 2011). A Cinema of Loneliness: Penn, Stone, Kubrick, Scorsese, Spielberg, Altman. New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-973888-5.
• Kolker, Robert P. (30 November 2016). The Extraordinary Image: Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, and the Reimagining of Cinema. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-973888-5.
• Kozłowski, Krzysztof (2013). Stanley Kubrick: filmowa polifonia sztuk [Stanley Kubrick: A Cinematic Polyphony of Arts] (in Polish). Warszawa, Poland: PWN. ISBN 978-8301173005.
• Kramer, Richard Allen (2011). Propaganda and the Cinema: The Case for Assessing the Theoretical Spectrum of Open and Closed Cinematic Narratives Through Comparing and Contrasting Filmmakers Leni Riefenstahl and Stanley Kubrick (PhD thesis). Cincinnati, Oh.: Union Institute & University. OCLC 781735416.
• Krohn, Bill (2010). Stanley Kubrick. Masters of Cinema – Cahiers du Cinéma. New York, N.Y.: Phaidon. ISBN 978-2866425722.
• Kuberski, Philip (2012). Kubrick's Total Cinema: Philosophical Themes and Formal Qualities. London, England: Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 978-1-4411-4956-5.
• Léi, Yīng (2005). Sītǎnlì Kùbùlǐkè 斯坦利 库布里克 [Stanley Kubrick] (in Chinese). Shěnyáng, China: Liáoníng Měishù Chūbǎnshè. ISBN 978-7531432234.
• Lerose, Massimo (2011). Doppio Kubrick ...e se i suoi 13 film fossero in realtà uno solo? [Double Kubrick: What if His 13 Films Were Actually Only One Film?] (in Italian). Civitavecchia, Italy: Prospettiva. ISBN 978-8874187317.
• Metlić, Dijana Lj. (13 June 2012). Između Odiseje u svemiru i Širom zatvorenih očiju: analiza različitih oblika prisustva slike u filmovima Stenlija Kjubrika [From 2001: A Space Odyssey to Eyes Wide Shut: Analysis of Different Forms of Image Presence in Stanley Kubrick's Films] (PhD thesis) (in Serbian). Beograd, Serbia: Univerzitet u Beogradu. doi:10.2298/BG20120613METLIC. OCLC 7375766809. Archived from the original on 23 December 2024. Retrieved 23 December 2024.
• Naremore, James (2023). On Kubrick (Revised ed.). London, England: British Film Institute and Bloomsbury. ISBN 978-1-8390-2400-9.
• Nelson, Thomas Allen (22 June 2000). Kubrick: Inside a Film Artist's Maze (New and expanded ed.). Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0253213907.
• Nolan, Amy Lynn (22 March 2005). Re-envisioning the Mind–Body Labyrinth: Transformations in the Contemporary Narratives of Stanley Kubrick, Paul Auster, Christopher Nolan and Kathy Acker (PhD thesis). East Lansing, Mich.: Michigan State University. doi:10.25335/1wpj-kv41. OCLC 225617259. Archived from the original on 26 November 2024. Retrieved 21 December 2024.
• Perko, Manca (January 2019). Collaborative Authorship in Stanley Kubrick’s Films (PhD thesis). Norwich, England: University of East Anglia. OCLC 1122175102. Archived (PDF) from the original on 16 June 2024. Retrieved 21 December 2024.
• Perreault, Michael (2013). Notes on the Politics of the Auteur: Stanley Kubrick, Wes Anderson, and the Spectator (Honors thesis). Waterville, Me.: Colby College. OCLC 871576703. Archived from the original on 17 August 2024. Retrieved 22 December 2024.
• Pezzotta, Elisa (25 July 2013). Stanley Kubrick: Adapting the Sublime. Jackson, Miss.: University Press of Mississippi. ISBN 978-1617038938.
• Pezzotta, Elisa (22 September 2022). The Prison of Time: Stanley Kubrick, Adrian Lyne, Michael Bay and Quentin Tarantino. London, England: Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 978-1501380600.
• Phillips, Gene D. (1977). Stanley Kubrick: A Film Odyssey. New York, N.Y.: Popular Library. ISBN 978-0445041011.
• Phillips, Gene D.; Hill, Rodney (2002). The Encyclopedia of Stanley Kubrick. New York, N.Y.: Facts on File. ISBN 978-0816043880.
• Pierre, Arnauld (2010). Maternités cosmiques : la recherche des origines de Kupka à Kubrick [Cosmic Motherhoods: The Search for Origins, from Kupka to Kubrick] (in French). Paris, France: Hazan. ISBN 978-2754104555.
• Pili, Chiara (8 January 2020). Il cubo di Kubrick [Kubrick's Cube] (in Italian). Roma, Italy: Fondazione Mario Luzi. ISBN 978-8867482207.
• Pili, Giangiuseppe (8 January 2020). Anche Kant amava Arancia meccanica: la filosofia del cinema di Stanley Kubrick [Even Kant Loved A Clockwork Orange: The Philosophy of Stanley Kubrick's Cinema] (in Italian). Pistoia, Italy: Petite Plaisance. ISBN 978-8875882303.
• Pramaggiore, Maria (2019). Stanley Kubrick's Cinema of Failure. London, England: Bloomsbury. doi:10.5040/9781350996328.0004. OCLC 1134772467.
• Rambuss, Richard (2021). Kubrick's Men. New York, N.Y.: Fordham University Press. ISBN 978-0823293889.
• Rasmussen, Randy (28 February 2005). Stanley Kubrick: Seven Films Analyzed. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company. ISBN 978-0-7864-2152-7.
• Rebutto, Chiara (7 July 2021). Stanley Kubrick (EBook) (in Italian). København, Denmark: Saga Egmont. ISBN 978-8726970289.
• Rice, Julian (2008). Kubrick's Hope: Discovering Optimism from 2001 to Eyes Wide Shut. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow. ISBN 978-0810862067.
• Ritzenhoff, Karen A.; Metlić, Dijana; Szaniawski, Jeremi, eds. (2023). Gender, Power, and Identity in the Films of Stanley Kubrick. Abingdon-on-Thames, England: Routledge. ISBN 978-1032072227.
• Rhodes, Gary Don (2008). Stanley Kubrick: Essays on his Films and Legacy. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company. ISBN 978-0-7864-3297-4.
• Sandoval, Michael (2016). The Stanley Kubrick Handbook: Everything You Need to Know About Stanley Kubrick. La Vergne, Tenn.: Emereo. ISBN 978-1489169860.
• Schäfer, Horst, ed. (1975). Materialien zu den Filmen von Stanley Kubrick, Eine Veranstaltung des Filmforum Duisburg im Rahmen der "Duisburger Woche", September 1975 [Materials for the Films of Stanley Kubrick, an Event Organized by the Filmforum Duisburg as Part of the “Duisburg Week", September 1975] (in German). OCLC 219895430.
• Sperb, Jason (2006). The Kubrick Facade: Faces and Voices in the Films of Stanley Kubrick. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow. ISBN 978-0-8108-5855-8.
• Switzer, Judith A. (26 October 1981). Stanley Kubrick: The Filmmaker as Satirist (PhD thesis). New York, N.Y.: New York University. OCLC 854765007.
• Szaniawski, Jeremi, ed. (20 February 2020). After Kubrick: A Filmmaker’s Legacy. London, England: Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 978-1501347641.
• Tatsumi, Takayuki (1999). Sutanri Kyuburikku スタンリー・キューブリック [Stanley Kubrick] (in Japanese). Tokyo, Japan: Kinema Junpōsha. ISBN 978-4873765211.
• Taylor, Michael Cory (11 May 2012). What Makes a Man: Social Constructions of Masculinity in the Works of Stanley Kubrick (Honors thesis). Hattiesburg, Miss.: University of Southern Mississippi. OCLC 856583268. Archived from the original on 28 July 2024. Retrieved 22 December 2024.
• Wade, Chris (21 December 2019). Stanley Kubrick On Screen. Morrisville, N.C.: Lulu. ISBN 978-0244846954.
• Webster, Patrick (21 December 2010). Love and Death in Kubrick: A Critical Study of the Films from Lolita Through Eyes Wide Shut. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company. ISBN 978-0-7864-6191-2.
• Zhu, Yeqi (2022). Yù yán zhī jìng: Sītǎnlì Kùbùlǐkè diàn yǐng gǎi biān yán jiū 寓言之境: 斯坦利·库布里克电影改编研究 [The Realm of Allegory: A Study of Stanley Kubrick's Film Adaptations] (in Chinese). Shànghǎi, China: Fùdàn dà xué chū bǎn shè. ISBN 978-7309163940.

Use of music

• Akashi, Masanori (14 July 2007). Kyuburikku eiga no ongakuteki sekai キューブリック映画の音楽的世界 [The Musical World of Kubrick's Films] (in Japanese). Tokyo, Japan: Arufabēta. ISBN 978-4871985499.
• Gauthier, Brigitte, ed. (2012). Kubrick, les musiques [Kubrick: The Music] (in French). Paris, France: L'Entretemps. ISBN 978-2355391491.
• Gengaro, Christine Lee (1 November 2012). Listening to Stanley Kubrick: The Music in His Films. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-0-8108-8564-6.
• McQuiston, Kate (December 2013). We'll Meet Again: Musical Design in the Films of Stanley Kubrick. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-976766-3.
• Pinto, Darrell (10 November 2011). Music, Eros, and Thanatos in the Films of Bunuel, Dali, Visconti, and Kubrick (PDF) (PhD thesis). Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University. OCLC 867151510. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 December 2024. Retrieved 22 December 2024.
• Sanvoisin, Rémy (2014). Kubrick et la musique [Kubrick and Music] (in French). Paris, France: Vrin. ISBN 978-2711625567.

On individual films

Killer's Kiss (1955)

• Koszarski, Richard (13 July 2021). "Keep ’Em in the East": Kazan, Kubrick, and the Postwar New York Film Renaissance. New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0231200998.

Spartacus (1960)

• Winkler, Martin M., ed. (2008). Spartacus: Film and History. Hoboken, N.J.: Blackwell. ISBN 978-0-470-77726-8.

Lolita (1962)

• Drtilová, Zuzana (2007). Tři verze Lolity: román – scénář – film [Three Versions of Lolita: Novel, Script, Film] (PDF) (Dissertation) (in Czech). Olomouc, Czech Republic: Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci. OCLC 854765007. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 December 2024. Retrieved 19 December 2024 – via Theses.cz.
• Machu, Didier; Tuhkunen, Taïna (26 August 2009). Lolita, roman de Vladimir Nabokov (1955) et film de Stanley Kubrick (1962) [Lolita: Novel by Vladimir Nabokov (1955) and Film by Stanley Kubrick (1962)] (in French). Paris, France: Ellipses. ISBN 978-2729852863.
• Martiny, Erik (12 November 2009). Lolita: From Nabokov to Kubrick and Lyne. Paris, France: CDU Sedes. ISBN 978-2301000590.
• Pilińska, Anna (10 September 2015). Lolita Between Adaptation and Interpretation: From Nabokov's Novel and Screenplay to Kubrick's Film. Newcastle upon Tyne, England: Cambridge Scholars. ISBN 978-1443880497.
• Schulze, Kerstin (10 May 2011). A Novel and Its Adaptation: Stanley Kubrick – Lolita (1962). München, Germany: Grin. ISBN 978-3-640-91182-0.

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)

• Broderick, Mick (3 January 2017). Reconstructing Strangelove: Inside Stanley Kubrick's "Nightmare Comedy". London, England: Wallflower. ISBN 978-0231177092.
• Case, George (21 August 2014). Calling Dr. Strangelove: The Anatomy and Influence of the Kubrick Masterpiece. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company. ISBN 978-0786494491.

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

• Agel, Jerome, ed. (April 1970). The Making of Kubrick's 2001. New York, N.Y.: New American Library.
• Benson, Michael (April 2018). Space Odyssey: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke, and the Making of a Masterpiece. New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-1-5011-6395-1.
• Bisony, Piers (23 September 2015). The Making of Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. Köln, Germany: Taschen. ISBN 978-3836559546.
• Bullard, Galen (1 September 2001). Kubrick's Prophecy: A Guide to the Insights of 2001: A Space Odyssey. Calgary, AB: Starling Wavefront. ISBN 978-0968768709.
• Chion, Michel (2001). Kubrick's Cinema Odyssey. London, England: British Film Institute. ISBN 978-0-85170-839-3.
• Fenwick, James, ed. (2020). Understanding Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey: Representation and Interpretation. Bristol, England: Intellect. ISBN 978-1789382129.
• Frewin, Anthony, ed. (2005). Are We Alone?: The Stanley Kubrick Extraterrestrial Intelligence Interviews. London, England: Elliott & Thompson. ISBN 978-1904027454.
• Frinzi, Joe R. (24 July 2017). Kubrick's Monolith: The Art and Mystery of 2001: A Space Odyssey. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company. ISBN 978-1476664422.
• Grande, Mariacristina (27 December 2021). Un'odissea moderna tra letteratura e cinema: il mito di Ulisse in Joyce e Kubrick [A Modern Odyssey Across Literature and Cinema: The Myth of Ulysses in Joyce and Kubrick] (in Italian). Roma, Italy: Stamen. ISBN 978-8831928847.
• Halstead, Albert (28 January 2019). Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey: How Patterns, Archetypes and Style Inform a Narrative (EBook). Pennsauken, N.J.: BookBaby. ISBN 978-1543956863.
• Jaumont, Fabrice (8 October 2018). Stanley Kubrick: The Odysseys. New York, N.Y.: Books We Live By. ISBN 978-1628480795.
• Kapferer, Bruce (15 April 2014). 2001 and Counting: Kubrick, Nietzsche, and Anthropology. Chicago, Ill.: Prickly Paradigm. ISBN 978-0984201051.
• Kolker, Robert (24 February 2006). Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey: New Essays. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-972436-9.
• Lasagna, Roberto (15 March 2018). 2001: odissea nello spazio di Stanley Kubrick [Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey] (in Italian). Roma, Italy: Gremese. ISBN 978-8884409966.
• McKay, Frances Thompson (1982). Movement in Time and Space: The Synthesis of Music and Visual Imagery in Luchino Visconti's Death in Venice and Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey (DMA thesis). Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University. OCLC 85949823.
• Peral, Sergio (26 April 2023). Kubrick total: cómo cambió el rumbo del cine de Hollywood [Total Kubrick: How He Changed the Trajectory of Hollywood Cinema] (in Spanish). Madrid, Spain: Sílex. ISBN 978-8418388835.
• Richter, Dan (25 July 2002). Moonwatcher's Memoir: A Diary of 2001: A Space Odyssey. Foreword by Arthur C. Clarke. New York, N.Y.: Carroll & Graf. ISBN 978-0786710737.
• Schaefermeyer, Mark Jeffery (1982). The Rhetoric of Film: A Semiotic Approach to Criticism with a Case Study of Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey (PhD thesis). Columbus, Oh.: Ohio State University. OCLC 656200045. Archived from the original on 22 December 2024. Retrieved 22 December 2024 – via OhioLINK.
• Schwam, Stephanie, ed. (7 March 2000). The Making of 2001, A Space Odyssey. New York, N.Y.: Modern Library. ISBN 978-0375755286.
• Stelzer, Philipp (2022). Anfänge der Globalisierung: Macht und Mythos in Epischen Anfangskonstruktionen Bei Ovid, Milton und Kubrick [Beginnings of Globalization: Power and Myth in Epic Initial Constructions in Ovid, Milton and Kubrick] (in German). Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. ISBN 978-3846767320.
• Ulivieri, Filippo; Odino, Simone (4 June 2019). 2001 tra Kubrick e Clarke: genesi, realizzazione e paternità di un capolavoro [2001 Between Kubrick and Clarke: The Genesis, Making and Authorship of a Masterpiece] (in Italian). Loreto, Italy: StreetLib. ISBN 978-8834128497.
• Wheat, Leonard F. (21 June 2000). Kubrick's 2001: A Triple Allegory. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow. ISBN 978-1-4616-6023-1.

A Clockwork Orange (1971)

• Bailey, Andrew; Houston, Penelope; Strick, Philip (31 March 2007). Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange (One book, one DVD and one foldable poster). Köln, Germany: Taschen. ISBN 978-3836577267.
• Böttcher, Heiko (31 March 2007). The Metamorphosis of Alex in Stanley Kubrick's Clockwork Orange from a Viewpoint of Abnormal Psychology. München, Germany: Grin. ISBN 978-3-638-63109-9.
• Grossini, Giancarlo (2 September 2022). Il cubo di Kubrick: Arancia meccanica 50 anni dopo e per sempre [Kubrick's Cube: A Clockwork Orange 50 Years On and Forever] (in Italian). Milano, Italy: Bietti. ISBN 978-8882485054.
• von der Heide, Thomas (1 June 2006). A Clockwork Orange: The Presentation and the Impact of Violence in the Novel and in the Film. München, Germany: Grin. ISBN 978-3-638-50681-6.
• Kubrick, Stanley; Burgess, Anthony (2000). Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange: Based on the Novel by Anthony Burgess. Southwold, England: ScreenPress. ISBN 978-1-901680-47-8.
• McDougal, Stuart Y. (7 July 2003). Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-57488-4.
• Melia, Matthew; Orgill, Georgina, eds. (2023). Anthony Burgess, Stanley Kubrick and A Clockwork Orange. London, England: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-3031055980.
• Schill, Oliver (14 January 2004). The Expressionistic Style and the Theatricality in Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange (1971). München, Germany: Grin. ISBN 978-3-638-24523-4.
• Volkmann, Maren (16 October 2006). A Clockwork Orange in the Context of Subculture. München, Germany: Grin. ISBN 978-3-638-55498-5.

Barry Lyndon (1975)

• Cocchi, Paolo (27 September 2009). Musica e immagine in Barry Lyndon di Stanley Kubrick [Music and Image in Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon] (in Italian). Morrisville, N.C.: Lulu. ISBN 978-1445202754.
• Magnisi, Davide (10 June 2022). Barry Lyndon di Stanley Kubrick [Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon] (in Italian). Roma, Italy: Gremese. ISBN 978-8866921257.
• Pilard, Philippe (1990). Barry Lyndon: Stanley Kubrick (in French). Paris, France: Nathan. ISBN 978-2091886268.
• Pramaggiore, Maria (2020). Making Time in Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon: Art, History and Empire. London, England: Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 978-1501300318.
• Webster, Patrick (15 April 2024). The Genius of Barry Lyndon: Factual and Theoretical Approaches to Kubrick's Masterpiece. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company. ISBN 978-1476689975.

The Shining (1980)

• Vv.Aa. (10 January 2020). The Shining (El Resplandor) (in Spanish). Málaga, Spain: Cult Books. ISBN 978-8809776661.
• Goliot-Lété, Anne (3 July 2020). Shining de Stanley Kubrick : dans le labyrinthe [Stanley Kubrick's The Shining: Inside the Maze] (in French). Bordeaux, France: Le Bord de l'eau. ISBN 978-2356876126.
• Mee, Laura (28 September 2017). The Shining. Devil's Advocates. Liverpool, England: Liverpool University Press. ISBN 978-1911325444.
• Olson, Danel, ed. (2015). Stanley Kubrick's The Shining: Studies in the Horror Film. Lakewood, Colo.: Centipede. ISBN 978-1613470695.
• Rinzler, J.W. (15 December 2024). Unkrich, Lee (ed.). Stanley Kubrick's The Shining. Köln, Germany: Taschen. ISBN 978-3754400036.
• Roy, Simon (23 December 2016). Kubrick Red. Translated by Homel, Jacob. Vancouver, BC: Anvil Press. ISBN 978-1772140729.
• Wade, Chris (14 September 2018). Stanley Kubrick's The Shining. Classic Film Series. Morrisville, N.C.: Lulu. ISBN 978-0244416003.

Full Metal Jacket (1987)

• Modine, Matthew (25 October 2005). Full Metal Jacket Diary. New York, N.Y.: Rugged Land. ISBN 9781590710470.
• Paula, Rodrigo Martini (24 June 2010). A reavaliação da Guerra do Vietnã apresentada no romance The Short Timers (1979), de Gustav Hasford, e em sua adaptação fílmica Full Metal Jacket (1987), de Stanley Kubrick [The Reappraisal of the Vietnam War Presented in the Novel The Short Timers (1979), by Gustav Hasford, and in Its Film Adaptation Full Metal Jacket (1987), by Stanley Kubrick] (MA dissertation) (in Portuguese). São Paulo, Brazil: Universidade Estadual Paulista. OCLC 854765007.

Eyes Wide Shut (1999)

• Abrams, Nathan; Orgill, Georgina, eds. (2023). Eyes Wide Shut: Behind Stanley Kubrick's Masterpiece. Liverpool, England: Liverpool University Press. ISBN 978-1-83764-515-2.
• Althaus, Benjamin (18 November 2004). Communication in Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut. München, Germany: Grin. ISBN 978-3-638-32589-9.
• Cadieux, Axel (24 October 2019). Le dernier rêve de Stanley Kubrick : enquête sur Eyes Wide Shut [Stanley Kubrick's Final Dream: A Study on Eyes Wide Shut] (in French). Nantes, France: Capricci. ISBN 979-1023903430.
• Kolker, Robert P.; Abrams, Nathan (June 2019). Eyes Wide Shut: Stanley Kubrick and the Making of His Final Film. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0190678036.
• Raphael, Frederic (31 August 1999). Eyes Wide Open: A Memoir of Stanley Kubrick. New York, N.Y.: Ballantine. ISBN 9780345437761.
• Ruwe, Carolin (November 2007). Symbols in Stanley Kubrick's Movie Eyes Wide Shut. München, Germany: Grin. ISBN 978-3-638-84176-4.

On unrealized projects

Napoleon

• Castle, Alison, ed. (2009). Stanley Kubrick's Napoleon: The Greatest Movie Never Made. Köln, Germany: Taschen. ISBN 978-3836568890.

A.I. Artificial Intelligence

• Harlan, Jan; Struthers, Jane M. (2009). A.I. Artificial Intelligence: From Stanley Kubrick to Steven Spielberg – The Vision Behind the Film. London, England: Thames & Hudson. ISBN 978-0-500-51489-4.
• Rice, Julian (2017). Kubrick's Story, Spielberg's Film: A.I. Artificial Intelligence. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-1442278189.

On Kubrick as a photographer

• Vv.Aa. (12 May 2012). Stanley Kubrick Photographer. Catalog of the "Stanley Kubrick Photographer" exhibition held at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium. Arles, France: Actes Sud. ISBN 978-8809776661.
• Calabrese, Omar (2012). Stanley Kubrick fotografo [Stanley Kubrick the Photographer] (Catalog of an exhibition held at the Palazzo delle Arti di Napoli, Naples, Italy in 2012) (in Italian). Firenze, Italy: Giunti. ISBN 978-8809778849.
• Crone, Rainer (2005). Stanley Kubrick: Drama & Shadows – Photographs 1945–1950. London, England and New York, N.Y.: Phaidon. ISBN 978-0-7148-4438-1.
• Crone, Rainer; Wirth, Wouter (15 November 2011). Stanley Kubrick: visioni e finzioni 1945–1950 [Stanley Kubrick: Visions and Fictions 1945–1950] (in Italian). Firenze, Italy: Giunti. ISBN 978-8809768789.
• Mather, Philippe (2013). Stanley Kubrick at Look Magazine: Authorship and Genre in Photojournalism and Film. Bristol, England: Intellect. ISBN 978-1-84150-611-1.
• Sante, Luc; Corcoran, Sean; Albrecht, Donald (2018). Stanley Kubrick Photographs: Through a Different Lens. Köln, Germany: Taschen. ISBN 978-3-8365-7232-3.

Documentaries

• Kubrick by Kubrick (Motion picture). Written and directed by Grégory Monro. 12 May 2020. OCLC 1390632748.{{cite AV media}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
• Room 237 (Motion picture). Written and directed by Rodney Ascher. 23 January 2012. OCLC 854579016.{{cite AV media}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
• S Is for Stanley: 30 Years Behind the Wheel for Stanley Kubrick (Motion picture). Directed by Alex Infascelli, written by Alex Infascelli, Filippo Ulivieri and Vincenzo Scuccimarra. October 2015. OCLC 1090158732.{{cite AV media}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
• Stanley Kubrick's Boxes (Television production). Written and directed by Jon Ronson. 15 July 2008. OCLC 513359220.{{cite AV media}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
• Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures (Motion picture). Directed by Jan Harlan. 17 February 2001. OCLC 179924124.{{cite AV media}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)