The uncanny and the ghostly nature of the world in Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining" (1980)

Gabriele Biotti

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This article analyzes Stanley Kubrick's film The Shining (1980) in its complex textuality, where ghosts, spectrality and repetition compulsion play a relevant role in defining the symbolic space of a contemporary gothic story about madness, fear, evil traces and perception. In a context where time is out of joint, and where evil laws try to frame human presences in a dimension of distress, spectral presences shape a ghostly world where fears and violence are defeated by a special mental strength, the 'shining'.


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Spectrality; archive; ghosts; time; otherness.

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17951/lsmll.2019.43.4.77-87
Date of publication: 2019-12-30 00:00:00
Date of submission: 2019-03-08 09:26:25


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