Open AccessDealing With Our Bloody Past
Author(s) -
Kameron McBride
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
digital literature review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2692-904X
DOI - 10.33043/dlr.1.0.30-40
Subject(s) - genocide , motif (music) , norm (philosophy) , bloody , criminology , political science , history , environmental ethics , sociology , art , law , aesthetics , literature , philosophy
This essay explores how director Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining establishes the Overlook Hotelas an environment where conservative complacency has become the norm and all hope ofprogression is lost. By using a maze motif and the backdrop of Native American genocide TheShining explores and critiques how modern America was constructed.