‘The Shining’ and the Power of Murderous Narratives
The Shining endures because it conveys all horror, real and imagined: Stephen King’s horror of the collapse of Man, and Stanley Kubrick’s collapse of History.
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Stephen King: ‘America’s Dark Theologian’
Horror might not be a replacement for the absolutism of religion, but for Stephen King its proved to be both a lucrative and at times life-long examination of what exists behind locked doors.
‘Room 237’ and The History of Cinematic Representations of Cinephilia
Rodney Ascher’s Room 237 is among the few films that respects and even admires cinephilia and its various forms.
Freudian Trip: Why We Still Can’t Get ‘The Shining’ Out of Our Heads
Freud theorized that to experience the uncanny was to awaken intellectual uncertainty. Kubrick's The Shining understands this to a masterful degree.