Jack Torrance has accepted a job as caretaker for the Overlook Hotel and just as the hotel has a dark history, so does Jack. Though analyses of the themes in Kubrick’s film (the white man’s oppression of Native Americans, etc.) are well worth exploring, since they have already been looked into, I won’t be exploring them. These themes include the self-destructiveness of alcoholism, family abuse, the return of repressed bad internal object relations, repetition compulsion, and the death drive. His novel is a classic in the horror genre, and while his and Kubrick’s visions of the story differ so vastly, I find enough thematic material common to both that I will cite both versions in my analysis to make my point. King had a well-received made-for-TV miniseries version done in 1997, one that, naturally, was much more faithful to his novel. It was made into a film by Stanley Kubrick in 1980 and while the initial critical response to the film was mixed (with King especially disliking how Kubrick changed huge portions of the story), it is now considered one of the best horror movies ever made. It was his third published novel, after Carrie and ‘Salem’s Lot. The Shining is a supernatural horror novel written by Stephen King and published in 1977.
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