Hierarchies of Violence in The Shining

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Concluding our series of horror-themed video essays, we tackle arguably the most obsessively over-analyzed horror movies of all-time. Let's see if we can integrate the conspiratorial theories of things like Room 237 with the core text that is Stanley Kubrick's The Shining.

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Works Cited:

The Gothic (Blackwell Guides to Literature). 2004. David Punter and Glennis Byron.
Kubrick’s Shining Secret. 1987. Bill Blakemore - https://www.washingtonpost.com/archiv...
The Shine of the Shining: Domestic Violence and Deterministic Trauma. 2019. Ashleigh Boutwell. - https://scholarworks.gsu.edu/cgi/view...
The Shining. 1974. Stephen King.
Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?: Domestic Violence in The Shining. 2016. Elizabeth Jean Hornbeck. - https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.15767...
Why The Shining is Terrifying. 2017. Super Eyepatch Wolf. -    • Why The Shining is Terrifying  

Music Featured:

Stepping out of melancholy by Lingua Lustra
sednoseteres by Hinterheim
Hello Regan! by Loyalty Freak Music
Both Flanks by Small Collin
I Feel You by Soft and Furious

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