237 - Room 237 Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Celebrate a Three Digit Number

Heat Death of the Universe

We discuss the subjective documentary Room 237 in which a handful of obsessive armchair theorists share their various interpretations of Stanley Kubrick's masterclass in splicing arthouse ambiguity with genre trope driven narrative, The Shining. What's in between each frame in these frame-by-frame analyses? North American genocide? Freudian treatise? A false moon landing confessional? Subliminal advertising techniques on display and under scrutiny? The historic ripples and echoes of the Third Reich? Or is it, as Kubrick himself said, simply about "a man who tries to kill his family"?
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Genral Recommendations

• Josh's Recommendation: Room 237
• Tim's Recommendation: Industry (the recommendation that's always been here)

Further Reading, Viewing, Listening

• VIEW: Room 237 (here or here)
• LISTEN: The Makers of THE SHINING documentary 'Room 237'
• READ: KUBRICK'S SHINING' SECRET by Bill Blakemore (July 12, 1987)
• READ: The Wolf at the Door: Stanley Kubrick, History, and the Holocaust

More From Joshua Nomen-Mutatio

• Some Fiction Writing
  • An ongoing novel: The Feeding Stage
  • A short story: Lydia's Drive
  • A short story: The Form Awards

More From Timothy Robert Buechner

• Podcast: Q&T ARE / violentpeople.co
• Tweets: @ROHDUTCH

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• Twitter: @heatdeathpod
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