The Stanley Kubrick Archive: A Dossier of New Research

Ten years ago those immersed in researching the life and work of Stanley Kubrick (1928–1999) were gifted a unique opportunity for fresh insights into his films and production methods. In March 2007 the Kubrick Estate—supervised by his executive producer and brother-in-law, Jan Harlan—donated the director’s vast archive to the University of Arts London and instigated a new wave of scholarly study into the director. The Stanley Kubrick Archive comprises the accumulated material at Childwickbury, the Kubrick family home near St Albans, from which he largely worked and where he maintained a comprehensive record of his films’ production and marketing, collated and stored in boxes. This special dossier emerges from a three-day international conference, Stanley Kubrick: A Retrospective, held at De Montfort University, Leicester, in May 2016. The conference brought together leading Kubrick scholars to discuss, reflect upon and consider how to move forward in their research given what had been found so far in the Stanley Kubrick Archive.