The Shining (BFI Film Classics), by Roger Luckhurst
March 6, 2026•540 words
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Kubrick’s relationship to the horror genre was soon grasped in a different way by more reflective critics. The director seemed to have a parodic or subversive approach, turning Gothic conventions on their head, locating the horror not in supernatural threats to the nuclear family but erupting from its domestic heart.
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This is in the nature of paranoid readings: The Shining does to its viewers what the hotel does to its visitors – it makes them shine on things glimpsed that were perhaps nev...
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