The Shining (1980)

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A man, his son and wife become the winter caretakers of an isolated hotel where Danny, the son, sees disturbing visions of the hotel's past using a telepathic gift known as "The Shining". The father, Jack Torrance, is underway in a writing project when he slowly slips into insanity as a result of cabin fever and former guests of the hotels ghost's. After being convinced by a waiter's ghost to "correct" the family, Jack goes completely insane. The only thing that can save Danny and his mother is "The Shining".

Film programs

Books on The Shining

		Roger Luckhurst The shining London, England; New York, 2013

		Greg Jenkins Stanley Kubrick and the Art of Adaptation, Three Novels, Three Films Jefferson, North Carolina, and London, 1997

Books with substantial mentioning of The Shining

		Robert J. Belton Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo and the Hermeneutic Spiral New York, NY, 2017

		Dave Kehr Movies that mattered, More reviews from a transformative decade Chicago; London, 2017

		David Thomson Moments that made the movies London, 2014

		David Thomson Have you seen?, A personal introduction to 1,000 films New York, 2008

		Jürgen Müller Die besten Filme der 80er Köln - London - Los Angeles - Madrid - Paris - Tokyo, 2005

		Gene D. Phillips, Rodney Hill The Encyclopedia of Stanley Kubrick, From Day of the Fight to Eyes Wide Shut New York NY, 2002

		Mario Falsetto Stanley Kubrick, A Narrative and Stylistic Analysis Westport, Connecticut - London, 2001

		Mikita Brottman (editor) Jack Nicholson, Movie Top Ten 2000

		James Howard Stanley Kubrick Companion London, 1999

		Thomas Allen Nelson Stanley Kubrick, Spartacus, 2001: Odyssee im Weltraum, Uhrwerk Orange, Shining München, 1984