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Kubrick Red : A Memoir by Simon Roy; Jacob Homel is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Literary Nonfiction. Film Studies. Translated by Jacob Homel. Winner of a silver IPPY. Stanley Kubrick's film The Shining was released in 1980 and has been fascinating viewers ever since. It is a psychological thriller about a writer with writer's block (along with his wife and their young son) who takes a job as caretaker of an isolated hotel in the Colorado mountains during the winter off-season. The boy, Danny, is gifted with a sixth sense and soon begins receiving disturbing messages about the hotel's mysterious past, and thus begins a cinematic descent into madness and terror. Simon Roy first saw The Shining when he was ten years old and was mesmerized by a particular line in the movie spoken by Dick Hallorann, the chef of the Overlook Hotel, while he is giving the family an orientation tour of the facilities. Hallorann seems to speak directly to Danny (and Simon Roy) while in the middle of enumerating the stock of the hotel's pantry to Danny's mother. He glances at Danny and the words cross telepathically into the boy's mind: How'd you like some ice cream, Doc? Roy has since seen the movie over forty-two times, and the painstaking bond he has knitted with this stor

Who reads Kubrick Red : A Memoir?

Author

Simon Roy; Jacob Homel

Publisher

Anvil Press Publishers Inc

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9781772141313

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Memoir, Literary Fiction, History