Stanley Kubrick. Dirección artística integral: de la idea al cartel de la película

Authors

  • Graciela Padilla-Castillo Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain)
  • Victor Cerdán-Martínez Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.58479/almanaque.2022.46

Keywords:

Stanley Kubrick, persuasion, poster functions, movie posters, graphic design, cinema

Abstract

This research makes a thorough and original study of the filmography of the late American director Stanley Kubrick, bringing together films and posters. Stanley Kubrick, combined films and posters. It studies in a unitary way each of the film posters, following the most common criteria and elements of Graphic Design. of Graphic Design. The objective is to show that each poster is in perfect consonance with the movie it represents and becomes with the film it represents and becomes the most valuable and realistic advertising. Several biographies and several biographies and monographs tried to unravel the plots and aesthetics of each film. aesthetics of each film. In addition, we have read and studied manuals of Graphic Design and studies on composition, style, and typography. Lastly, ideas were gathered from ideas from specialized works on film posters. After the necessary and detailed analysis and detailed analysis, the conclusions corroborated the starting hypothesis, concluding that the American director supervised the design of the posters in order to trap the film on paper in a single image. on paper, in a single image, a frame, or an illustration. His ultimate interest was not to advertise publicity or create controversy, but to create another, smaller story within the story of each film. film. Each of these posters is a good example of the fact that the poster is not only an advertisement but also a continuation or, better said, a continuation or, rather, the beginning of the film. Kubrick knew this underlying value and exploited it throughout his career. exploited it throughout his career. That is why his posters have their own style, objectives, and patterns, just as his and patterns, just as his films.

Author Biographies

Graciela Padilla-Castillo , Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain)

Coordinator of the BA programme in Journalism of the School of Information Sciences of the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM). Member of the Feminist Research Institute (UCM). Member of the European Journalism Observatory (EJO), since its foundation in Spain. PhD degree in Information Sciences (2010, with honourable mention) from the Complutense University of Madrid and BA degree in Journalism and Audiovisual Communication (2006, with outstanding graduate award). Accredited Full Professor. Postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) and guest expert in gender studies at the Benemérita Autonomous University of Puebla (BUAP, Mexico). Her research interests focus on information theory, ethics and deontology of communication, TV fiction and gender studies. Author and co-author of a hundred book chapters and scholarly articles published in high-impact journals. Has coordinated more than 10 collective works and has participated in more than 30 competitive and private research and teaching-innovation projects.

Victor Cerdán-Martínez, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain)

Víctor Cerdán is a professor and researcher at the Faculty of Information Sciences at the Complutense University of Madrid. In the cinematographic field he has written and directed the short films "Radio Atacama", "El Mal", "Exhumar a Prim" and "Caracoles Serranos" exhibited at international film festivals and the fiction feature film "Perderlo todo" (Cineteca de Madrid Audience Award, 2021 at the Rizoma Film Festival and Special Mention at the Ibiza International Independent Film Festival IBZCF, 2022). In television he has directed two seasons of the international documentary series "Héroes Invisibles" broadcast on RTVE. In the academic field, he has published more than ten articles in journals indexed in the JCR and/or SJR catalogs. He has also been awarded the prize for the best popular science video of the year 2020 by IEEE Access (USA) and awarded in the category i+D+I in the "Dependence and Society Awards of the Caser Foundation" (2022), along with other researchers from the Complutense University of Madrid, the Carlos III University, and the Spanish Center for Subtitling and Audio Description (CESyA).

Published

2022-06-30

How to Cite

Padilla-Castillo , G., & Cerdán-Martínez, V. (2022). Stanley Kubrick. Dirección artística integral: de la idea al cartel de la película. ALMANAQUE, (39), 69–94. https://doi.org/10.58479/almanaque.2022.46

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