Abstract

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

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