ABSTRACT
This chapter considers representations of aging, old age, and decrepitude across Stanley Kubrick’s films. This is an area of critical interest that has been largely neglected so far. As part of this inquiry, the author discusses the complex father/son relations in the work, as well as draws some overlooked parallels with the way the Irish dramatist and writer Samuel Beckett also engages with the aging process. Melia notes as well some of the intertextual crossovers between Kubrick and Beckett’s work and observes how Kubrick uses aging, old age, and evanescence as a way of depicting the passage of time.
