Fear And Desire

Emerged in a transitional era between the old Hollywood and the new one, Stanley Kubrick is regarded as a cross-sectional figure in the moviedom of his time who links the preceding with the following. His works inherited the classical Hollywood movies & Europe's early masterpieces' tradition and laid the footstone for a coming New Hollywood movement in which his outstanding achievement won him fame and praise in public. As later on other dashing comrades once fighting for this movement ended up in anonymity or turned around from their former ideal to the embrace of Hollywood, Kubrick continued his pursuit of movie's artistic value and gradually reached the peak of modern movie.In this thesis Kubrick's nine outstanding movies are subject to analysis of their theme, artistic style and a further exploration of the value these movies pursued beyond the picture.The article is composed of the prologue and the text. In the prologue the issuer gives a brief introduction of Kubrick movie's characteristics, the current Kubrik movie study in China and the significance and orientation of the research conducted in the thesis. In the text there are three chapters, chapter 1 provides a general review to the transitional period of Hollywood and New Hollywood movement, analyzes how Kubrick persisted with the personal color and how his works survived and even succeed in the Hollywood framework.Staring with viewing the themes of his movies, the second chapter sees a detailed analysis of Kubrick movies' artistic connotation, the characteristic color and the value quest of his works and as well stressed his innovative attribution in the New Hollywood Movement. The third chapter is a research on Kubrick movies' space-time structure with which he set scenarios and weaved the stories, as well on Kubrick's exploration and innovation on the narration of the movie language.