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	The Shining - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Shining (film), Stanley Kubrick's adaptation of the novel
		The Shining (mini-series), the ABC mini-series scripted by Stephen King
		This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Shining (103 words)

	The Shining (novel) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Shining (1977) is a horror novel by American author Stephen King.
		He moves into the Overlook Hotel with his wife, Wendy, and young son, Danny, who is telepathic (the "shining" of the title) and sensitive to supernatural forces.
		King wanted to call the book "The Shine" but changed it when he realized that "shine" was a derogatory name for fl people.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Shining_(book) (572 words)

	Picking the Bones: The Shining
		The Shining was published in the same year as Rage and two years after 'salem's Lot, making 1976 the only year from '74 to the present in which a brand new Stephen King book did not appear.
		The novel is about the boy of course, Daniel Anthony Torrance, but more so about his father, Jack Torrance, who over the course of the book finds in himself the rationale to murder his family.
		Perhaps by the third novel the combination of excellent characters with intricate detail was becoming to be expected, but this is a more intense and personal vision than the previous two, and many of the ones to come.
	www.tabula-rasa.info /StephenKing/Shining.html (1017 words)

	The Kubrick Site: ...Thoughts On Reading Kubrick's The Shining
		Initial critical responses to The Shining were lukewarm to virulently negative, accusing it of being muddled, inconsistent, and poorly contrived.
		He calls it 'shining,' specifically naming the conversations he and his grandmother were able to have "entirely without ever opening our mouths." What he's describing is a mythological state of linguistic purity, divorced from the corrupting and inexact influence of words themselves.
		The Shining is not as easily fooled as he is. It knows with Derrida that the play between image and 'reality' is not nearly so simple, that even his extra-sensory abilities cannot break free of the infinite play of signs.
	www.visual-memory.co.uk /amk/doc/0089.html (4394 words)

	THE CINEMA LASER DVD REVIEW-- THE SHINING
		Of course, the film is an entirely different animal from the Stephen King novel upon which it is based, but Kubrick’s adaptation of THE SHINING has certainly left is own indelible mark on the realm of horror.
		While Danny is the first to see the horrifying manifestation's of the Overlook's dark past, it is Jack who is most deeply effected by the hotel- slowly being driven to madness by the ghosts of the past, who want another bloody massacre.
		The Making of The Shining runs 34 minutes and is a great film on its own; documenting what occurred on the set of what has since become a classic horror movie.
	www.thecinemalaser.com /dvd2/reviews/shining-dvd.htm (1139 words)

	Heartbreak Hotel - The Shining, the remake. By Alex Ross
		It appeared as a novel in 1977, was obliquely but majestically filmed by Stanley Kubrick in 1980, and is now given a more literal treatment in an author-produced, author-scripted miniseries running this week on ABC.
		Shining is also more concerned with the ambitious "writing project" that Jack Torrance brings with him to the hotel.
		In the novel, it's said to be a play, mostly finished; once at the hotel, he conceives a different project, a nonfiction account of the Overlook.
	www.slate.com /id/3294 (1488 words)

	Salon \| "The Shining"
		With a budget for the new miniseries -- officially titled "Stephen King's 'The Shining'" -- clocking in at $23 million, what unspools across the tube is a vanity project of no small proportions.
		The result is what you might call a literal interpretation of "The Shining," as dramatically attenuated and thin on emotional substance as most of King's books.
		Like the best of the women-in-peril genre, this "Shining" also contains the requisite scene of the woman sporting two (if not three) broken knees, dragging herself on hobbled limbs toward the door for an ungodly period of time, perhaps weeks.
	www.salon.com /april97/shining970425.html (740 words)

	Haunted Bay - The Shining
		It is, pardon the pun, a shining example of what to do right when writing a horror novel.
		This novel should not be picked up unless you have more than an hour to spend reading, as you will be scarcely able to stop reading once you begin.
		The Shining is such a spellbinding novel in part because the reader feels as if they are actually in the mind of the characters.
	www.hauntedbay.com /reviews/shining.shtml (353 words)

	Hidden Meanings in The Shining? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The Shining is also explicitly about America's general inability to admit to the gravity of the genocide of the Indians - or, more exactly, its ability to "overlook" that genocide.
		The film is about how the all-male British military establishment, itself forged in bloody empire-building, passed on to its off-spring continental empire, the United States, certain timeworn army-building methods, including separating weak males from the balancing influence of their more sensitive womenfolk and children.
		The posters for The Shining that were used in Europe read across the top, "The wave of terror which swept across America," and centered below that, the two word "is here." At first glance this seemed to be a poster bragging about the film's effect on America.
	www.drummerman.net /shining/essays.html (1489 words)

	The Shining
		With "The Shining" he succeeds on all levels and delivers a film that warrants it's placement in the House of Horrors' Vault.
		The film's plot is directly rooted in the framework of the novel, but Kubrick had to tailor it into a management sequence of shots that could be executed efficiently within the limitations of the day.
		The budget for "The Shining" was $18 million and for the miniseries it was $25 million.
	www.houseofhorrors.com /shining.htm (1735 words)

	TheDarkTower.net \| TowerWiki - The Shining (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The Shining concerns the Torrance family and their residence at the Overlook Hotel in Colorado, where husband and father, Jack, has taken a winter caretaking job.
		It: Dick Hallorann, the cook with The Shining from The Shining appears in It as the mess cook of E Company, Mikey Halloran's father's Derry unit back in the 30's.
		The Regulators: At the end of The Regulators, in a letter from Patricia Allen to Katherine Goodlowe, "The Shining" novel is mentioned.
	www.thedarktower.net /wiki/Main/TheShining (462 words)

	The Shining (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Loosely based on the masterful Stephen King novel of the same name, The Shining is set within the confines of a grand and sprawling mountain hotel.
		Danny Lloyd, as the son blessed with the telepathic gift of "the Shining," does a remarkable and affecting job with his role, conveying trauma, horror, and a slightly split personality (that remarkably cognizant imaginary friend) with apparent ease.
		Cinematographer John Alcott's vivid use of colors, framing, and camera movement creates shots that are broad canvases, film as art, with spectacular wide views of the architectural magnificence of the hotel, the snowy hedge-maze, and the countryside itself, as well as some dazzling aerial photography.
	www.urbanoutlaw.com /opinion/2003/0707.html (1056 words)

	Kubrick FAQ - The Shining
		In The Shining, it seems to be males who have the power to "shine", a supernatural ability which could be likened to witchcraft.
		However the TV Shining was poorly received and generally considered to be vastly inferior to the Kubrick's version.
		The two version of The Shining are the US cut with has a running time of 144 minutes and the international version which is 20 minutes shorter.
	www.visual-memory.co.uk /faq/html/shining/shining.html (5786 words)

	Stanley Kubrick's The Shining
		Special effects could not come up with a satisfactory way of creating the hedge animals which come to life in the novel, so the hedge maze was substituted in its place.
		While not the first film to use the Steadicam, it was the first film to use the handheld camera stabilization device so extensively and effectively.
		Scenes such as Danny's tricycle ride around the hotel lobby, the tour through the kitchen, and the chase through the hedge maze could not have been photographed as effectively as they were without the invention.
	pages.prodigy.com /kubrick/kubts.htm (577 words)

	Books (etc) We Like
		The Shining is a deeply psychological novel, one that I didn't fully comprehend when I first read it (I was only 13).
		While this novel truly is horrifying, I feel that it also transcends the confines of the typical 'haunted house story' and is truly a piece of literature that will be treasured for decades to come.
		Things seem to be recuperating and steadily repairing itself, the sky out bright blue, shining and clear, when suddenly ominious, dark gray clouds mass up in enormous amounts and it starts raining, thunder roaring and booming, lightning striking and electrifying, the wind howling and slapping and cutting.
	bookswelike.net /isbn/0743424425 (1655 words)

	Amazon.com: The Shining: Books: Stephen King (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Central to the Shining is the way the force of the evil in the Hotel is able to utilize Jack's weaknesses ultimately to turn him to its purposes--to destroy what he love the most.
		Danny has "the shine," a gift which allows him to see and know things he cannot possibly know; it is a powerful gift which the Overlook (which really is an entity unto itself) jealously desires for itself.
		The Shining really isn't one of my all-time favorite Stephen King novels, but it is exceedingly well crafted and features some of the most harrowing scenes to be found in King's immense body of work.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0743424425?v=glance (2654 words)

	JoBlo reviews the movie "The Shining"- Comments2
		THE SHINING worked for me from start to finish because Stanley Kubrick is a director who does not cater to the lowest common denominator of audiences that the horror genre has been known to pander to.
		Usually when a movie is made based on a novel it doesn't manage to be as good as the novel, or better.
		Despite JoBlo's insightful commentary on "The Shining", a film that obviously impressed him, the critical consensus on this movie is that Nicholson's overacting ultimately sinks this movie, and I'd have to agree.
	www.joblo.com /shining2.htm (2738 words)

	The Shining: A Horror Fiasco
		The Stephen King novel the film was based on was overlong and cliched, but at least it was eventful.
		The novel contained some fine scattered moments of Grand Guginol--the attack of the topiary animals, the boiler explosion, Torrance bludgeoning himself with a croquet mallet, etc. Properly cut down, the novel could have been turned into a highly effective ghost thriller.
		At least in the King novel, some of Jack’s psychological demons originated in a tortured childhood where Jack was abused by an alcoholic father.
	www.babblog.com /Sep_04/092904_SF_Movies.htm (1305 words)

	The Shining movie review. Horror classic, Kubrick and Jack Nicholson star
		He is told that there was a problem with the previous caretaker who got cabin fever and murdered his family with an axe.
		He's newly back on the wagon after being an alcoholic who we presumed may have been a raging one, he grabbed hold of his son once and at the risk of losing his family swore off liquor.
		So with all it's political and social commentary, "The Shining" can be praised for simply bringing us one of the best horror movies of our time.
	www.geocities.com /smvgrey/shining.html (1415 words)

	The Shining
		She called it 'shining.' And for a long time, I thought it was just the two of us that had the shine to us.
		The Shining is based on Steven King's 1977 horror novel about a domestic tragedy involving four people at a giant isolated resort hotel that possess this paranormal psychic power of clairvoyance and telepathy.
		The Shining is a film oozing with style to the point it squeezes out shut elevator doors.
	www.metalasylum.com /ragingbull/movies/shining.html (2851 words)

	The Shining (1997)
		The Shining was one of my favourite books, and still remains one of my favourite by this particular author.
		The reason why The Shining works so well in the novel format is that so much more is hinted at than is brought out explicitly.
		What the novel, and also this 3-part TV adaptation, are all about comes down to human nature — an abused son growing up to be a shadow of his father, an alcoholic harbouring a mean and violent streak which he cannot control, sometimes unleashing that side on his family.
	www.michaeldvd.com.au /Reviews/Reviews.asp?ReviewID=3308&SID=2&PID=224600 (1774 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Shining: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Certainly the novel is much more scarier, with scenes that delve deeper into the supernatural and certainly some differences that Stanley Kubrick probably could not afford to film.
		Whether it is the best horror novel is up to you, but this certainly one of the best ones to have been written.
		The Shining has some great ideas and features to it that although may not be terrifying, certainly get your heart racing.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0450040186 (1330 words)

	The DVD Journal: The Shining
		The Shining was co-adapted and directed by Stanley Kubrick, often mentioned as a Great Director, an Important Filmmaker, and the kind of auteur who is commemorated by deluxe boxed sets of his films on DVD (the sort of commemoration which he richly deserves).
		It is during this interview that we learn about "the Shining." The Shining, Dick tells Danny, is the power that some people have — the two of them included — to communicate without speaking.
		Danny calls the Shining "Tony," who he says is "the little boy who lives in my mouth." When Tony talks, Danny extends his index finger and speaks in a creaky voice (which is one of the creepiest things you'll ever see).
	www.dvdjournal.com /reviews/s/shining_2k.shtml (1161 words)

	The Shining (1980) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The Shining is filled with strange accelerations and decelerations, which have the effect both of keeping the viewer from settling into a comfortable groove and of preventing the movie from feeling as long as it is despite its very methodical overall pace.
		This is something of a thorny issue in the case of The Shining, in that it is seized upon equally, and for the very same reasons, both by those who love the movie and by those who hate it.
		True, there is a certain element of that in King’s novel, but it is undermined there by the fact that Jack’s inner demons are just too small a facet of his personality to make it believable that the Overlook would prefer him to anybody else.
	www.1000misspenthours.com /reviews/reviewsn-z/shining1980.htm (2386 words)

	Discussion Boards -> FILM REVIEW: The Shining
		Adapted from Stephen King's novel of the same name, "The Shining", this movie shows how a house in which horrible things have happened can take on a life of it's own.
		By movie's end we realize that Danny and his mother are isolated from the rest of the world, trapped by the snow in a house that never wants them to leave.
		The Shining is a commendable translation to film, of a literary horror masterpiece.
	www.pleasedrivethrough.com /forums/index.php?showtopic=97 (496 words)

	The Shining (ISBN 0743424425): Very Well Said™
		The Shining is one of the better examples of King's work and the horror novel in general.
		Forget for a moment that The Shining is one of the greatest horror novels ever written, the inspiration for a classic movie and a fine TV miniseries, a scary, scary tale of a haunted hotel, and a fun piece of work by the Charles Dickens of our time.
		There was also a miniseries remake of The Shining made in 1997, made by Stephen King himself, and it was quite good: extremely faithful to the original novel, yet not quite as scary as the 1980 Kubrick film.
	www.verywellsaid.com /titles/the/the-shining-0743424425.php (9401 words)

	Thoughts on Stuff: The Shining
		The Shining is a bit different because it's not a movie in which Kubrick has to create a whole world.
		I read an essay online stipulating that The Shining was all about the destruction of native Americans, and while I'd hesitate to go that far, I think the fact that it was build on an Indian burial ground implies that something is up with the Overlook.
		The only thing that saves Danny and his mother from the fate of the girls is the fact that he is able to shine Halleran and bring him to the hotel.
	thoughtsonstuff.blogspot.com /2005/07/shining.html (1443 words)

	stephen king's the shining
		Stephen King never cared for Stanley Kubrick's 1980 adaptation of his novel, so he decided to write his own adaptation 17 years later.
		Given this to work with, Weber makes us care; and therefore, when Jack begins to lose his shit, Weber is able to dig into a disturbing and saddening downward spiral.
		It's believed that Kubrick (and by extension, I presume, the Kubrick estate) did not care for the idea of The Shining being done again, and that this may be why the miniseries took almost six years to emerge on American home video.
	www.angelfire.com /movies/oc/qa/shining97.html (580 words)

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