The Shining

How does Stanley Kubrick use narrative and stylistic features to manipulate the audience? The Shining was Stanley Kubrick’s 9th feature film and is renowned in the horror genre and is considered a masterpiece of cinema. Even though this film has such a striking difference to the rest of Kubrick’s work- it does have a common ground in style. Very much like 2001: a space odyssey, The Shining places the audience in the middle of a very unfamiliar territory and has a fixation on immersing the audience

movie?” That can easily be evaluated by one of the most ambiguous horror movies out there, The Shining, a horror film by Stanley Kubrick, that tells a story of a family that has moved into a hotel called the Overlook, which was inhabited by ghosts. Throughout the film, the plot develops around the Torrance family: Jack, Wendy, and their son Danny. Some of the Criteria that can be evaluated in “The Shining” are the acting, the backstory, and the cinematography. In the film, Jack Torrance, a writer

Formal Analysis of The Shining In his exemplary horror film, The Shining, Stanley Kubrick uses various components of editing and sound to create unique and terrifying scenes. Kubrick relies on editing and sound design to aid the horrifying and creepy feel that was made in the in the movie. All throughout the movie, the unique sound design and strong editing techniques create many diverse effects on the viewer, however the most evident effect created a sense of fear and suspense. One scene specifically

In my personal opinion Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining" is one of the most hauntingly cold horror movies to come out in the 1980s. This film takes a unique way of delivering its scares through the use of intricate shot composition, editing and consistent use of atmosphere to create a sense of constant tension, a tension that can only be brought on by the feeling of being trapped like a prisoner in the unknown a feeling that easily bleeds over to the viewing to the audience. The film creates an

saw that it spelled murder”- Stephen King. The Shining directed by Stanley Kubrick in 1980, based on the novel of Stephen King is an American horror film that portrays the life of a frustrated writer who moves into the Overlook hotel, where strange things begin to develop. The Shining displays the use of camera angles to make the film important in terms of horror and suspense, it shows the story of a man who falls into a state of craziness. The Shining takes place in the Colorado Rockies mainly in

The Shining: This film is seen as one of the best horror films of the Western cinema history. The Shining has a rather small but strong cast which has always been important for Stanley Kubrick. This film was starred by the legendary actor -with a legendary performance- Jack Nicholson, as Jack Torrance. We also see Shelley Duvall as Wendy, and Danny Lloyd as Danny Torrance. Scatman Crothers’ magnificent performance as a supporting actor –as Dick Hallorann- helped the film to “shine” even more. (IMDb

The Shining The film, The Shining, follows a family who moved to the Colorado Rockies for the winter so the father, Jack Torrance, can take a job as a caretaker of the Overlook Hotel. Jack received this job after the previous caretaker, Charles Grady, went crazy and murdered his wife and two daughters. Jack’s son Danny has these disturbing psychic visions that revisit him many times throughout the film, including ones of the murdered Grady daughters and blood pouring out the elevators. Danny relates

The Shining is a 1981 horror film directed by Stanley Kubrick, based on the book of the same name written by Stephen King. The film’s central plot is the story of a family of three that moves to a secluded hotel in the mountains, where their patriarch turns insane and tries to murder his wife and child with an axe. This essay is about the role that gender plays in the experience of watching the film adaptation of The Shining, directed by Stanley Kubrick. There are innumerable ways an audience member

The 1980 film The Shining represents what suspense, agitation and horror can be created through expert cinematography. Stanley Kubrick the director manages to build immense panic and unease within the viewer as he depicts the gradual degradation of Jack Torrance. The film sees Jack Torrance succumb to insanity through isolation and supernatural occurrences whilst caretaking a hotel with his family, where he mentally implodes and attempts to kill his wife and son; this amassing to pandemonium. A pivotal

Stanley Kubrick, already a renowned filmmaker, permanently left a mark on the face of the horror genre with the release of one of his most iconic films, The Shining. Though many themes, motifs, and theories have circulated since the films release, as a whole Kubrick’s film serves primarily as a commentary on how desperate isolation can heighten an individual's descent into insanity; whether that insanity is the product of supernatural forces or one’s own psychosis, is heavily debated. Many cinematic