Understanding Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey

Introduction: Forging new perspectives
James Fenwick Part One: Narrative and Adaptation
- Chapter One: 'God, it'll be hard topping the H-bomb': Kubrick's search for a new obsession in the path from Dr. Strangelove to 2001: A Space Odyssey
Simone Odino Chapter Two: 2001: A Space Odyssey: A transcendental trans-locution
Suparno Banerjee Chapter Three: Four-colour Kubrick: Jack Kirby's 2001: A Space Odyssey as adaptation and extension
Dru Jeffries Part Two: Performance
- Chapter Four: Performing the man-ape in 'The Dawn of Man': Daniel Richter and The American Mime Theatre
James Fenwick Chapter Five: Life functions terminated: Actors' performances and the aesthetics of distanced subjectivity in 2001: A Space Odyssey
Vincent Jaunas Part Three: Technology
- Chapter Six: From technical to cinematographic objects in 2001: A Space Odyssey
Antoine Balga-Prevost Chapter Seven: Homo machinus: Kubrick's two HALs and the evolution of Chapter Seven: Homo machinus: Kubrick's two HALs and the evolution of monstrous machines
Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper Part Four: Masculinity and the Astronaut
- Chapter Eight: Clarke and Kubrick's 2001: A queer odyssey
Dominic Janes Chapter Nine: 'But as to whether or not he has feelings is something I don't think anyone can truthfully answer': The image of the astronaut in 2001: A Space Odyssey and its lasting impact
Nils Daniel Peiler Part Five: Visual Spectacle
- Chapter Ten: Negative/Positive: Metaphors of photography in 2001: A Space Odyssey
Caterina Martino Chapter Eleven: The sublime in 2001: A Space Odyssey
Rachel Walisko Part Six: Production
- Chapter Twelve: 2001: A comprehensive chronology
Filippo Ulivieri