Dealing With Our Bloody Past

Repression vs. Recognition of American History in Stanley Kubrick's The Shining

Abstract

This essay explores how director Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining establishes the Overlook Hotel
as an environment where conservative complacency has become the norm and all hope of
progression is lost. By using a maze motif and the backdrop of Native American genocide The
Shining explores and critiques how modern America was constructed.