The Uncanny and the Ghostly Nature of the World in Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining (1980)
The Uncanny and the Ghostly Nature of the World in Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining (1980)

Summary/Abstract: 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’.

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