Episode 211 – You’ve Always Been the Caretaker: On Kubrick’s ’The Shining’

In this episode, Phil and JF discuss Stanley Kubrick's adaptation of Stephen King's novel The Shining. That they are doing this eight years after starting the podcast is weird in itself, so fundamental is Kubrick's "chamber epic" to the modern weird in general, and the hosts' specific interests in particular. Well, as the Overlook Hotel's former caretaker Delbert Grady might put it, consider the situation corrrrected.

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Interstitial Music: "Corridors" from Pierre-Yves Martel's Weird Studies Volume 2.

REFERENCES

Stanley Kubrick, The Shining

Jan Harlan, A Life in Pictures

Stanely Kubruck, Killer’s Kiss

Alberto Giacometti, “The Palace at 4am”

Gilles Deleuze, What is Philosophy?

Reyner Banham, “The New Brutalism”

Mark Fisher, The Weird and the Eerie

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