Citations:Kubrick stare

Noun: "the act of looking at the viewer with head tilted downward and eyes peering upward from beneath the eyebrows"

 * 1995, Harvey Cormier, "2001: Modern Art, and Modern Philosophy", in Philosophy and Film (eds. Cynthia A. Freeland & Thomas E. Wartenberg), page 194:
 * The Kubrick stare, for example, is a trademark: locked out of the spaceship Discovery, Dave Bowman stares, trembling, into the camera as he reflects on HAL's madness and his own imminent death;
 * 2007, Jeremy Mark Robinson, The Sacred Cinema of Andrei Tarkovsky, page 379:
 * This is a standard Kubrick motif (critics call it the 'Kubrick stare').
 * 2010, Izzy Sanders, "Top Ten: Entrances", Redbrick (University of Birmingham), 5 March 2010, page 11:
 * That Kubrick stare, the electric Purcell, Alex's eyelashes and our antihero's lazy smile as he delivers his composed monologue.
 * 2011, Karan Katoch, "Diary of a Fresher: tubes, iPod disputes and fear of the cleaning lady", London Student (University of London), 15 October 2011, page 10:
 * But something about her Kubrick stare, suspicious lack of blinking and complete absence of cleaning equipment displaces my very soul.
 * 2013, Tess Anderson, "Kubrick vs. King: who reigns supreme?", Vanguard (Portland State University), 25 April 2013, page 8:
 * The use of the "Kubrick stare"—the shot of a man glowering up at the camera from beneath lowered brows, often paired with a psychotic smirk—only adds to the to the film's sinister overtones.
 * 2013, Craig Blamer, "Ashton Kutcher stars in shallow biopic on Apple co-founder", Chico News & Review, 22 August 2013, page 41:
 * And while he's [Kutcher] competent enough working within his limited Keanu Reeves range, there's more than a few times when his caricature of Jobs consists of nothing but a creepy "Kubrick stare" and bob-bob-bobbing along as he stalks the halls of Apple like some cartoon raptor.
 * 2014, Andrew Howe, "The Hand of the Artist: Fan Art in the Martinverse", in Mastering the Game of Thrones: Essays on George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire (eds. Jes Battis & Susan Johnston), page 259:
 * The first is the so-called "Kubrick Stare" (Kubrick Stare), from his use of it with Malcolm McDowell's character in A Clockwork Orange and Jack Nicholson's character in The Shining, although it was first used to highly dramatic effect at the end of Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho.
 * 2017, Don Perez, "Librarian of horror", The Union (El Camino College), 18 May 2017, page 3 (image caption):
 * Analu Cruze-Josephides, librarian and actor exemplifies his rendition of the “Kubrick stare,” a technique synonymous with villainous characters he plays in films.
 * 2017, Marty Fugate, "'The Remnant' offers a cure for Vietnam War amnesia", Arts + Entertainment, 8 June 2017, page 9:
 * Vincent D'Onofrio goes off the deep end with a malevolent Kubrick stare.
 * 2018, Chris McCoy, "The Professional", Memphis Flyer, 26 April 2018, page 34:
 * Ramsay's work is as chilling as it is technically flawless. She's an avid practitioner of the Kubrick Stare
 * 2018, Caleb Wiseblood, "Blast from the Past: The Shining", New Times, 11 October 2018 - 18 October 2018, page 44:
 * The rest of his time is either spent confined to his desk with the typewriter or staring straight into the camera like he knows we're watching (the classic "Kubrick stare," used by at least one actor in almost all of the director's films).
 * 2019, Maarten Coëgnarts, Film as Embodied Art: Bodily Meaning in the Cinema of Stanley Kubrick, unnumbered pages:
 * As with A Clockwork Orange, the result is silent and enigmatic communication, the emblematic, impenetrable "Kubrick stare," as so many scholars have dubbed it, "head tilted downward, heavy-browed eyes looking upward."