The Shining
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The Shining

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The Shining

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Taking a fresh look at The Shining (1980), this book situates the film within the history of the horror genre and examines its rightful status as one of the greatest horror movies ever made. It explores how Stanley Kubrick's filmmaking style, use of dark humor, and ambiguous approach to supernatural storytelling complements generic conventions, and it analyzes the effective choices made in adapting King's book for the screen—stripping the novel's backstory, rejecting its clear explanations of the Overlook Hotel's hauntings, and emphasizing the strained relationships of the Torrance family. The fractured family unit and patriarchal terror of Kubrick's film, alongside its allusions to issues of gender, race, and class, connect it to themes prevalent in horror cinema by the end of the 1970s, and are shown to offer a critique of American society that chimed with the era's political climate as well as its genre trends. The film's impact on horror cinema and broader pop culture is ever apparent, with homages in everything from Toy Story to American Horror Story. The Shining showed that popular, commercial horror films could be smart, artistic, and original.

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Publisher
Auteur
Year
2017
ISBN
9781911325451
Topic
Mezzi di comunicazione e arti performative
Subtopic
Storia e critica del cinema

Table of contents

  1. Cover 
  2. Series Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Copyright
  6. Contents 
  7. Introduction
  8. 1. Kubrick and Horror
  9. 2. Adapting The Shining
  10. 3. Genre and Themes
  11. 4. Release, Reception and Cultural Legacy
  12. Conclusion
  13. Bibliography