Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey: New Essays (Paperba

Though "Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey" boasts a large and ever-expanding fan-base, there are few among even the most avid enthusiasts who fully understand the film's inheritance, complexities, and ironies. The essays in this collection, commissioned from a wide variety of scholars, examine in detail various possible readings of the film, its historical context, and its status as a quintessential science-fiction genre piece.