Kubrick and Quarantine

Last month’s Stanley Kubrick birthday celebration continues.

Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece The Shining hit theatres. Few films have been pored over in such painstaking detail and since its anniversary in May, there’s been an elevator-sized flood of refreshed articles, reviews and analyses. Thanks to Issue 95 from Senses of Cinema, we have the rest of our summer reading locked.

The online journal from Australia focuses on a wide range of cinematic themes and styles. Having much of the world under lockdown due to COVID-19, there’ve already been many comparisons to Jack Torrance’s descent into cabin fever during his isolated winter at The Overlook, but now we’ve dozens of leading Kubrick scholars reflecting on The Shining after 40 years paired beautifully with reflections on Cinema in the Age of COVID.

If Senses of Cinema is not already in your inbox, here’s the rundown of some amazing work on The Shining at 40, published in time for Kubrick’s birthday.