The Shining

The Native American Genocide that swept America “The Shining” is a classic horror film directed by Stanley Kubrick, released on May 23, 1980. The movie takes place in the home of the three main characters Jack Torrance, Wendy Torrance and Danny Torrence aka Doc. Jack goes for an Interview and ends up getting the job during the winter as the caretaker of the Overlook Hotel. The Overlook Hotel is known to have many Native American patterns on the floor and curtains even on Wendy’s clothes.…

classic, The Shining. The film was made in the year 1980, starring Jack Nicholson as Jack Torrance, Shelly Duvall as Wendy Torrance, and Danny Lloyd as Danny Torrance. The film was directed by Stanley Kubrick and screen written by Stanley Kubrick and Diane Johnson. Critics originally poorly reviewed the film, however with time the film became a classic. The film ended up grossing $44.40 million dollars. The film’s story was based on Author Stephen King’s novel “The Shining”. The Shining has been…

Stephen King’s novels The Shining and It are incredible examples of the exploitation of children in the 20th century horror-gothic genre. As American cultural historian David Skal notes, King’s novels “brim with fantasies of sacrificial children” (1993: 362). In The Shining and It, children play a significant role as victims who are being threatened by terrifying monsters. These monsters take very different forms but are nonetheless horrifying. The presence of the child in King’s novels must be…

Building Tension in The Shining by Tyler Johnson Chesapeake College The Shining (1980) is a horror-drama film directed by Stanley Kubrick, starring Jack Nicholson and Shelley Duvall. Based on the novel of the same name by Stephen King, The Shining is about a family who takes residence in a secluded hotel for the winter during its off season. The hotel is home to evil spirits that manipulate the father, Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson), into a violent state. His psychic son (Danny Lloyd)…

claimed to be one of the greatest writers of all time with too many novels to count published. On top of the novels, majority of his novels have been turned into a movie or television series. One of the most recognizable novel turned movie is The Shining. The storyline takes place around a struggling writer and his family who became the caretakers of a hotel in the mountains of Colorado for the winter. They are trapped by the snow, and when cabin fever catches up to the man, Jack, things get out…

In both the novel and the film of The Shining, beyond the blood and gore, there is a distinct role of a person of color, Dick Hallorann, in relation to his white counterparts. In the novel by Stephen King, Dick is portrayed as a heroic conqueror, who selflessly endures the monstrous ghosts and ghouls, who are all white, of the Overlook hotel in order to save Danny and Wendy Torrance. He emerges victorious, and even helps the mother and son overcome their grief. However, in the film version,…

Jack Torrance, the main character of Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining, played by Jack Nicholson, dutifully fills his role as breadwinner to the nuclear family until the pressures of carrying the “white man’s burden” become to great for him to bear and ultimately causing him to go insane. Because a wide gap exists between Torrance’s desire (to be a creative person) and his interpolated role (which imposes breadwinning over his desire), he experiences heightened inner tension. This inner tension…

Novelist Stephen King centered on the theme of supremacy characteristic of white males over western native peoples masterfully in his book, The Shining. As a country yearning for new land, a young America stretched its borders into the West. While colonizing, white males believed that they were superior to the native peoples inhabiting the territory, and slaughtered hundreds of them to take over their lands. It’s been believed since those turbulent times in the colonial days of the United…

Do you remember the little kid from The Shining? Have you wondered how he’d be like as an adult after surviving a scary hotel that drove his drunken father insane? Stephen King has now told us what happens to Danny Torrance, and he’s just as screwed up from the experience as you’d expect him to be. Because of Dan’s past, his father’s life of alcoholism keep Dan drifting for years. Due to an AA community, he has been sober, and Dan’s gift can present itself more clearly. He meets a young girl…

filled with horror and fright to the point where you can't put the book down? Then The Shining is the book for you. A horror action/ survival intense filled book that will scare you straight is good way to describe this Stephen King book Let me just quickly say that this is by far the scariest novel that I have ever read. King brings out all of his great of writing techniques and creative writing mind in The Shining. At 447 Pages it exhibits all of King’s writing techniques which are…