The Shining and the Power of Narrative

00:00 The Scrapbook
01:52 Telling tales
04:19 Navigating the Story
06:30 Jack: Writer or Character?
09:15 The Wendigo and the Possession of Narrative
12:23 The Autonomy of the Story
13:20 Losing the Plot
14:58 The Evil of Narrative

FURTHER VIEWING

'Wendigo Psychosis in The Shining' by Dan Murphy and Damon Burnett: https://vimeo.com/510469929

'How Kubrick Adapted 'The Shining; into a Cinematic Masterpiece':    • How Kubrick Adapted ‘The Shining’ int...  

Anyone interested in analyses of 'The Shining' of course needs to be aware of Rob Ager's excellent work:    / @collativelearning  

MUSIC USED

'The Awakening of Jacob' - Krzysztof Penderecki
'Aether' - Audio Library
'Piano Concerto No.2 Movement 2' - Béla Bartók
'Enemy' - White Bat Audio
'Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta: Movement 2' - Béla Bartók
'Dream of a Witches' Sabbath' - Hector Berlioz
'Whole Tone Limbo' - Audio Library
'Main Title' - Wendy Carlos, Rachel Elkind
'It's All Forgotten Now' -- Al Bowlly'

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