Reading Assignments
Understanding Movies, Chapter 10 - Ideology

Hollis Alpert, "Tell Me, Who Is Kubrick?"

The "Incomplete" Clockwork Orange
The American version of Burgess's novel, on which Kubrick based his screenplay, was missing the final chapter of the novel! This explains why the novel and the film have opposing endings. This site recounts the story of the missing "Chapter 21" and contains several excerpts from interviews with Burgess. The relationship between Burgess and Kubrick is somewhat strained.

Critical Discussion of "A Clockwork Orange"
A collection of critical essays on the novel.

Anthony Burgess, "Filming A Clockwork Orange"
An excerpt from You've Had Your Time: Being the Second Part of the Confessions of Anthony Burgess, William Heinemann Ltd, London, 1990.

Stanley Kubrick, "A Clockwork Orange"
The script, including scene descriptions. Source unknown.

Alexander J. Cohen, "Clockwork Orange and the Aestheticization of Violence"
Lecture notes from the "Cinema and Beyond" seminar series, 1993, UC-Berkeley.

Stanley Kubrick on "A Clockwork Orange" Excerpted from the book Kubrick by Michel Ciment (1972), revised by Kubrick in 1981.

Kubrick Multimedia Film Guide
Maintained by Patrick Larkin, this web site contains stills, audio and video clips, scripts, and links to other sites for all of Kubrick's films.

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