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Themes
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A
- Abuse73 scenes
- Abuse Cycle12 scenes
- Advocaat2 scenes
- Aftermath7 scenes
- Alex Colville, Woman with Terrier2 scenes
- All the Best People18 scenes
- "All Work and No Play Makes Jack a Dull Boy"31 scenes
- Amalgamated Spaces27 scenes
- America Themes40 scenes
- American Culture26 scenes
- American Flag8 scenes
- American History32 scenes
- American History & American Culture77 scenes
- Art Deco2 scenes
Artwork1 subtopics
- Asleep3 scenes
- Awareness12 scenes
B
- Baseball5 scenes
- Bathrooms14 scenes
- Bear Skin Rug3 scenes
- Bird’s-Eye View5 scenes
- Bird's Eye View Used5 scenes
- Black and White Photos33 scenes
- Blaxploitation in Hallorans Condo1 scene
- Blaxploitation Photos3 scenes
- Boiler Room2 scenes
- Books20 scenes
- Boredom Leading to Destruction13 scenes
- Boulder Apartment & Summer of 4216 scenes
- Boundaries5 scenes
- Braun vs. Brains7 scenes
- Bugs Bunny13 scenes
- Bulletin Boards3 scenes
C
- Cabin Fever67 scenes
- Cameras5 scenes
- Cartoons6 scenes
- Castration8 scenes
- Ceremonial Spaces8 scenes
- Chandeliers Are Bear Traps4 scenes
- Characters and Their Matching Environment4 scenes
- Charles Grady Delbert Grady6 scenes
- Childish (Behavior)6 scenes
- Choices4 scenes
- Clams17 scenes
- Clashing Visuals6 scenes
- Closing Day and Halloween2 scenes
- Coffee5 scenes
- Cognitive Distortion2 scenes
Colors26 subtopics
Colors overview1 scene- Black15 scenes
- Black and Blue7 scenes
- Black and White18 scenes
- Blue63 scenes
- Brown14 scenes
- Danny Shirt Red White Blue10 scenes
- Fluorescent3 scenes
- Gold41 scenes
- Green57 scenes
- Grey29 scenes
- Neutrals9 scenes
- Orange5 scenes
- Palette Blue Red Green Pink Gold and Black13 scenes
- Palette Red Green Yellow16 scenes
- Pastel & Saturated9 scenes
- Pink32 scenes
- Pink & Gold25 scenes
- Purple3 scenes
- Red65 scenes
- Red & Black30 scenes
- Red & Gold8 scenes
- Red + Green39 scenes
- Red White & Blue51 scenes
- Saturated & Bright Red0 scenes
- Saturation + Vibration as Indicator32 scenes
- Yellow57 scenes
- “Come Play with Us, Danny”5 scenes
- Communication11 scenes
- Compositional Reflection64 scenes
- Conceptual Bookends23 scenes
- Connection to the Black and White Photos7 scenes
- Conquest4 scenes
- Control & Manipulation46 scenes
- Corduroy3 scenes
- Cornflakes0 scenes
- Couch2 scenes
- Couch Brown Plaid2 scenes
- Couch, Orange Plaid3 scenes
- Couch Striped5 scenes
- Cowboys and Indians6 scenes
- Cucumber2 scenes
- Cultural Appropriation4 scenes
- Cultural Relativism12 scenes
- Culture as Decoration18 scenes
- Cycles12 scenes
D
- Danny43 scenes
- Danny as a Normal Kid3 scenes
- Danny Being Around Sexualized Information & Imagery16 scenes
- Danny Being Around Violence & Inappropriate Activity40 scenes
- Danny + Jack7 scenes
- Danny’s Open Mouth + the Elevator Blood2 scenes
- Danny’s Trike4 scenes
- Darkness as Metaphor25 scenes
- Denial16 scenes
- Device : Theme Color Palette Reptition37 scenes
- Dick Halloran Is Head Chef at the Overlook.9 scenes
- Dies Irae1 scene
- Disconnection5 scenes
- Disorientation6 scenes
- Distraction5 scenes
- Do Ya Like Lamb, Doc?4 scenes
- Do You Really Want to Live in the Hotel : We're All Gonna Have a Real Good Time1 scene
- Domestic Abuse73 scenes
- Domination2 scenes
- Donner Party5 scenes
- Doubling53 scenes
- Dream Reality2 scenes
- Dried Fruits8 scenes
- Driftwood2 scenes
- Drugs + Alcohol3 scenes
E
F
- Fade in Transitions33 scenes
- Fairy Tales18 scenes
- Fatalism & False Fatalism26 scenes
- Faustian Bargain5 scenes
- Feather Centerpieces17 scenes
- "Feel Like I'll Have to Leave a Trail of Breadcrumbs Everytime I Come In"4 scenes
- Fetishism1 scene
- Fillm vs Novel3 scenes
- Fire23 scenes
- Fire Alarms18 scenes
- Fire Truck:Fire Engine3 scenes
- Fishing Photos5 scenes
- Five Months of Peace Is Just What I Want4 scenes
- Flock of Loons3 scenes
- Flood Imagery5 scenes
- Food6 scenes
- French Fries2 scenes
G
H
- Halloran as Danny's Spiritual Father26 scenes
- Halloran Beneath the Window14 scenes
- Halloran Having Nice Things9 scenes
- Hallways1 scene
- “Hard to Believe It Actually Happened Here. but It Did”1 scene
- “Hard to Believe It Happened Here”1 scene
- He Hasn’t Had Any Alcohol in 5 Months4 scenes
- “He’s the Little Boy Who Lives in My Mouth”2 scenes
- Head Chef2 scenes
- Here's to Five Miserable Months2 scenes
- Horror Movie Trope22 scenes
- Horse and Train4 scenes
- Hotel as America4 scenes
- Hotel as Ghost20 scenes
- Hotel + Mountain2 scenes
- Hunting11 scenes
I
- “I Dreamed I Killed You and Danny”5 scenes
- “I Think He Did It to Himself”2 scenes
- Ice Cream2 scenes
- Illness as Metaphor1 scene
- Imperialism Colonialism18 scenes
- Inappropriate Content from Television3 scenes
- Indigenous vs Western5 scenes
- Infantilization of Women10 scenes
- Irony7 scenes
- Is There Something Bad Here?7 scenes
- Isolation17 scenes
J
- Jack54 scenes
- Jack and His Family17 scenes
- Jack and Wendy’s Version of Pillow Talk7 scenes
- Jack as the Big Bad Wolf5 scenes
- Jack in the Interview vs. the Rest of the Film1 scene
- Jack’s Alcoholism25 scenes
- Jack’s Control24 scenes
- Jack’s Dream8 scenes
- Jack’s Drinking and His Work5 scenes
- Jack’s Ego19 scenes
- Jack’s Rage & the Elevator Blood21 scenes
- Jack’s Tie and the Maze1 scene
- Jack’s Word6 scenes
Jack’s Work2 subtopics
- Jacks History of Violence with Danny14 scenes
- Jacks Point of View Cannot Be Trusted32 scenes
- Jewelry as Ownership1 scene
- John Harvey Kellogg and Castration10 scenes
- Joy and Ivory Soaps2 scenes
- Just Like a Ghost Ship17 scenes
- “Just Like Pictures in a Book, It Isn’t Real”1 scene
K
L
M
- Magazines & Newspapers22 scenes
- Male Rage and Its Consequences2 scenes
- Man’s Nature2 scenes
- Man vs. Man0 scenes
- Man vs. Nature or, Mother Nature as Power4 scenes
- Manifest Destiny7 scenes
- Maps3 scenes
- Meat2 scenes
- Micro Macro8 scenes
- Military, Parade Rest8 scenes
- Milk3 scenes
- Mirrored Compositions on the Vertical (Y) Axis4 scenes
- Mirrored Compositions on the X Axis2 scenes
- Mirrored Compositions on the Z Axis2 scenes
- Mirrors20 scenes
- Misogyny7 scenes
- Mitigating Speech3 scenes
- Moving Boxes1 scene
N
- Native American Artwork11 scenes
- Native American Blankets12 scenes
- Native American Children Portraits17 scenes
- Native American Culture9 scenes
- Native American Imagery and Its Meanings10 scenes
- Native American Symbolism and Meaning28 scenes
- Native Americans7 scenes
- Native Americans & Indigenous People50 scenes
- Nature13 scenes
- No.26 Bugs Bunny and the Tricycle as Symbols for Danny14 scenes
- Normalization of Drugs and Alcohol6 scenes
- Not as Modern as We Think2 scenes
- Notice Boards8 scenes
O
P
- Parallel & Perpendicular10 scenes
- Parallel & Perpendicular: Visual References18 scenes
- Peanut Butter & Jelly3 scenes
- “Perfectly Normal Human Being : Killed His Family with an Axe”1 scene
- Perfectly Normal Individual1 scene
- Pheasant Centerpieces11 scenes
- Play as Violence11 scenes
- Play vs. Harm24 scenes
- Point of View2 scenes
- Predator + Prey22 scenes
- Previous Caretaker4 scenes
- Proximity4 scenes
Q
R
S
- Say Like Someone Burns Toast30 scenes
- Scene No.2 the Credits15 scenes
- Scene Reflections37 scenes
- Scene Repetition in Camera Cropping13 scenes
- Semiotic Splice19 scenes
- Sepia Photos3 scenes
- Sequence as Scene Repetition10 scenes
- Settlers : White People38 scenes
- Sexual Abuse10 scenes
- Sexual Objectification4 scenes
- Sexuality and Violence Notes1 scene
- Sexuality Subtheme12 scenes
- Sexualized Violence2 scenes
- Smoking40 scenes
- Snow12 scenes
- Snow Covered7 scenes
- Sobering5 scenes
- Sound Reflection66 scenes
- Sound, Wendy & Danny Playing Water1 scene
- Spatial Impossibilities7 scenes
- Sports & Games (Literal)36 scenes
- Stairs6 scenes
- Stars4 scenes
- Style Reflection, Structural2 scenes
- Style Reflection, Visual18 scenes
- Summer of 424 scenes
T
- Television13 scenes
- Television : Wendy9 scenes
- The Boulder Apartment + the Lobby1 scene
- The Catcher in the Rye1 scene
- The Elevator Hallway7 scenes
- The Exit Hallway5 scenes
- The Green Hallway8 scenes
- The Incident21 scenes
- The Lobby16 scenes
- The Magical Negro Trope2 scenes
- The Maze81 scenes
- The Phantom Carriage0 scenes
- The Radio7 scenes
- The Red Book1 scene
- The Scrapbook5 scenes
- The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters1 scene
- The Tragedy of 19704 scenes
- The Trike7 scenes
- “The Winter’s Can Be Fantastically Cruel”1 scene
- Time32 scenes
- Time Clock3 scenes
- Time: Visual References8 scenes
- Tom and Jerry4 scenes
- Tony8 scenes
- Tony the Tiger5 scenes
- Tool as Weapon7 scenes
- Torrance’s Life25 scenes
- Torrances as Employees5 scenes
- Toxic Masculinity2 scenes
- Toys9 scenes
- Traveling Sequences24 scenes
- Trees39 scenes
- Trucks + Cars7 scenes
- Truth + Fantasy10 scenes
- Tuxedos2 scenes
U
V
W
- Warnings12 scenes
- Water12 scenes
- Water Coolers9 scenes
- Watson8 scenes
- Watson as a Reflection of Jack5 scenes
- We All Have Moments of Deja Vu, but This Is Ridiculous16 scenes
- We Could Really Have a Party in Here4 scenes
- “We Don’t Drink”2 scenes
- Wealth9 scenes
- Wendy and Food15 scenes
- Wendy and the Kitchen2 scenes
- Wendy as Goofy5 scenes
- Wendy + Danny4 scenes
- Wendy + Jack22 scenes
- Wendy + Jack's Dynamic7 scenes
- Wendy Needing to See and Not Seeing17 scenes
- Wendy’s Personality5 scenes
- Wendy’s Trail of Awareness28 scenes
- Where There’s Smoke3 scenes
- “White Man’s Burden”6 scenes
- White Man’s Burden: Research Notes0 scenes
- White Privilege8 scenes
- Who Is Grady4 scenes
- Who Is Tony21 scenes
- Wild Life vs. Civilized Life8 scenes
- Winnie the Pooh3 scenes
- Women’s Work20 scenes
- Wood3 scenes
- Work&Play7 scenes
- Writers as Drinkers3 scenes