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10.4000/essais.622

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10.4000/essais.622

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Inside the interpretative maze of The Shining (1980). The search for meaning in crisis

Abstract

This essay examines the hermeneutics of The Shining (1980) in the light of the manifold overinterpretations that became apparent since the advent of internet forums and gained visibility with the release of Room 237 (Rodney Ascher, 2012). I suggest that, as highlighted by the motif of the labyrinth, Kubrick constructed a hermeneutic maze in which Jack –subject to hermetic thought– loses himself while Danny, whose humility enables him not to fall into the traps of an organising reason striving to make sense of a world impervious to human logic, escapes. In doing so, The Shining envisages its own reception through the staging of two conflicting viewing models.

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