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Podcast: New Books in Popular Culture
Episode: J. W. Rinzler and Lee Unkrich, "Stanley Kubrick's The Shining" (Taschen, 2023)
Description: In 1966 Stanley Kubrick told a friend that he wanted to make âthe worldâs scariest movie.â A decade later Stephen Kingâs The Shining landed on the directorâs desk, and a visual masterpiece was born. J. W. Rinzler and Lee Unkrich's book Stanley Kubrick's The Shining (Taschen, 2023) is the definitive compendium of the film that transformed the horror genre features hundreds of never-before-seen photographs, rare production ephemera from the Kubrick Archive, and extensive new interviews with the cast and crew.Nathan Abrams is a professor of film at Bangor University in Wales. His most recent work is on film dire...