Title:            Stanley Kubrick's The Shining: Studies in the Horror Film.

Edited by:    Danel Olson

Edition:           US 1st
Impression:    US 1st
Format:          Paperback (Smyth-Sewn)
Publisher:      Centipede Press (Colorado, US)
Year:              2015

ISBN-13:       9781613470695

Condition:   New / Unopened / Sealed ! 

Availability:  Long Out-of-Print / "Sold-out" on Centipede's site / Much sought-after, weighty book. 

Summary: For almost four decades, viewers have crept with the Torrances through Overlook corridors and run through its maze. Now in the largest collection of new and reprint interviews, essays, and reminiscences on Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining to date (along with many unseen photographs), we can discover who or what else moved beside us. Crafting this ultimate slow-burn movie out of 1.3 million feet of film (and forever tempting Shinologists to scry its hidden messages), Kubrick and team abandoned the traditional arc and classical three-act structure for something altogether different, affecting and lasting. Editor Danel Olson invites cast, crew, and film scholars to explain how a movie described as both simple and uneventful can affect us so. An illuminating introduction from acclaimed Oscar-winning writer/director/producer Lee Unkrich ushers the discussion forward, asking why the snowbound story 
still means so much for pop culture, filmmakers, and us.

This chunky, colour 752-page volume features new essays and nearly two dozen new interviews with cast and crew; as well as classic interviews with Jack Nicholson and Stanley Kubrick, it also includes 19 new interviews with Shelley Duvall, Joe Turkel, Garrett Brown by Justin Bozung; conversations with co-screenwriter Diane Johnson & the infamous Grady Twins by Catriona McAvoy, and many others. In addition, there is a special gallery of alternate film poster art. There are many behind the scenes photographs as well, provided by crew members. This is the definitive tome on Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”.


EDITION INFORMATION
  • Four-color printing throughout on coated stock.
  • Gallery of poster artwork.
  • Rare, behind the scenes photographs, most never before published.
  • Loaded with color stills and individual frame enlargements from the film.

About the Editor: Shirley Jackson Award and two-time World Fantasy Award winner, Dr. Danel Olson is the conceiver and contributing editor of a six volume original fiction print series "Exotic Gothic" (Canada's Ash-Tree Press and England's PS Publishing). His other edited works in print include "21st Century Gothic: Great Gothic Fiction Since 2000" (Scarecrow Press) and "The Exorcist: Studies in the Horror Film", "Stanley Kubrick's 'The Shining: Studies in the Horror Film", and "Guillermo del Toro's 'The Devil's Backbone' & 'Pan's Labyrinth': Studies in the Horror Film" (the latter two finalists for the Bram Stoker Award, with Centipede Press publishing all three). Professor Olson's most recent work is a collection of the complete short fiction and select criticism of Gothicist Patrick McGrath from 1987-2017 called "Writing Madness" (Centipede Press), a Stoker Award Finalist and World Fantasy Award Winner which Michael Dirda of The Washington Post calls "Sumptuous."

Critical Reception:  

"I've just read your masterful book from cover-to-cover and have to tell you how thorough, creative, complete and helpful the work is - it will definitely become a document from which film students will learn for decades to come." Greg MacGillivray (Veteran filmmaker/IMAX camera developer and Shining cinematographer)

"For this excellent and exhaustive compendium of Shining lore, editor Danel Olson has collected deep-dish essays, unseen pics and exhaustive interviews (with cast and crew), beginning with an introduction by Pixar's Lee Unkrich (a noted Shining zealot). A satisfying study in filmmaking, not kooky Room 237 theorising, it feels like nothing has been overlooked." - Ian Nathan, Empire July 2015

"Book of the Month... Enthusiasts will drool over the immaculate detail put into this 10-years-in-the-making tome." - C.Jackson, Fangoria July 2015

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