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

• Authors: Gabriele Biotti
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

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'.

DE

Der Band enthält die Abstracts ausschließlich in englischer Sprache.

FR

L'article contient uniquement les résumés en anglais.

Keywords

EN

Spectrality; archive; ghosts; time; otherness.

DE

FR

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej
• Journal: Lublin Studies in Modern Languages and Literature
• Year: 2019
• Volume: 43
• Issue: 4

Dates

published

2019

online

2019-12-30

Contributors

author

Gabriele Biotti

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Identifiers

DOI

10.17951/lsmll.2019.43.4.77-87