The Shining

terror and the dark supernatural” (CITE) King always finds a way to keep the reader in suspense and engaged in the conflict. For instance in The Shining, Jack was not everybodies favorite character but in the midst of death and possession of a deamon life form he stops and becomes a father protecting his son telling him to “...run away” (King Shining) while telling him how much he loved Danny reminding the reader that even though he is a crazed murderer and an alcoholic, the farther side of him…

Further on in the film Kubrick shows Jack being sent into the forbidden Room 237 to inspect the room to see if there was anyone in there, after Danny comes back extremely disheveled with bruises around his neck claiming that a strange woman had strangled him in Room 237. Kubrick uses a variety of camera shots, sound techniques and symbolism to show Jack being triumphed by an evil and unstable mind. In the scene Jack is shown to be confronted by a young, beautiful, naked woman stepping out of the…

it is carved by the experiences, interests, and the imaginations of its creator. In 1974, Stephen King used his experience at an old remote American hotel to create the setting of one of his most popular books, The Shining. Stephen King changed the…

Name: Zheng Huang Course Director: Dr Alison Halsall Course: HUMA 1780 C 4th April 2015 The Shining vs. The Shining Some people believed nothing can scare you if you do not do any conscience. However, a lot of things can scare people in real life. Monster is one of them. Monster, different people have different definitions; also have different perspectives for the type of monsters because people feel scared of different things. Some people think ghost is monster. Other people think ugly people…

This 1981 American classic horror film directed by Brian De Palma. The protagonist of this story Jack is a film sound man from Philadelphia. When recording sound for a low-cost horror film, he accidentally recorded the evidence of a murder of a presidential candidate and got involved in a bizarre political conspiracy. Palma is known as "the Hitchcock of the United States" and "the Master of contemporary Suspense Film". He is also considered as “part of the New Hollywood wave of filmmaking”[…

Stalker (1979) is Tarkovsky’s last film made in the Soviet Union (154). An open-ended question is left by the film: what is the Zone? The Zone is a fictional location that contains elements of fantasy and mystery, such as the wish-granting Room. Nevertheless, the way Tarkovsky films this reflects an attitude of realism. This approach allows the audience to relate life to the themes of the film, salvation through the faith in God, dignity, and love. In the film, the Stalker describes the Zone as…

How The Shining can be seen differently depending on the audience and the socio-cultural context through Performance, Narrative and Time ? The words ‘The Shining’ is most known for two simple facts. The first one entails its origins and the second one its universal success. Stephen King is well known for his terrifying and striking novels, and The Shining (1977) is definitely one of them. However, it is disputed that even with King’s well known recognition, The Shining (1980) became widely…

Kubrick directed many films. His most popular film was The Shining. British-American psychological horror film produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick, co-written with novelist Diane Johnson, and starring Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd, and Scatman Crothers. The film is based on Stephen King's 1977 novel The Shining, despite the film and novel both differing slightly in significant manners. In The Shining Jack Torrance, a writer and Karisa Watson 4/21/16 Dram2366 recovering…

Cinematography The movie, “Shining,” is directed by Stanley Kubrick in 1980. This film is based on the Stephen King’s novel, The Shining, in 1977. In the lecture, we watched documentary film, “The Making of THE SHINING,” which is filmed by Stanley Kubrick’s seventeen-years-old daughter, Vivian. The Documentary is mostly the Vivian’s vision. The cinematography was shaky and unstable all the time. However, I feel that it created the reality. Usually, the purpose of documentary film is document…

In a scene from the 2006 Peruvian film Madeinusa, Don Cayo—mayor of the fictional Andean town of Manayaycuna, breaks a clay pot full of food on the ground, as a gesture that signals the beginning of tiempo santo. As they file out of church after mass, the people of the town prepare to celebrate a period that starts at 3pm on Good Friday—the time of Jesus’ crucifixion—and ends at 6am on Easter Sunday, the time of his resurrection. According to local custom, during this period there is no sin:…