S1 E2 - Simple Story Techniques - Animating Objects in Stephen King's The Shining

04/19/20 • 4 min

How does Stephen King use description in his book, The Shining, to bring objects to life and turn them into monsters? In this week's episode, I take a closer look at why I think the book works so well as a piece of horror literature. CITED: Bishop, Wendy. Starkey, David. "Image and Metaphor." Keywords in Creative Writing. Colorado: University Press of Colorado, 2006. pp. 112-115 King, Stephen. The Shining. London: Hodder, 2011.

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S1 E3 - Deep Analysis - Fear as Language in Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds

In this episode I look at the opening chapter of Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds and how he uses fear as a narrative tool in the construction of the scene. Beware, this episode is a tough'un... really, I mean it!

CITED: Ben Walters, Debating Inglourious Basterds, Film Quarterly, Vol. 63, No. 2 (Winter 2009), pp. 19-22 Paul L. Gower, Psychology of Fear, Nova Biomedical; UK ed. edition (9 Oct. 2003) Mary Wrenn (2013) Fear and Institutions, Journal of Economic Issues, 47:2, 383-390 Doherty, Thomas. Cinéaste, vol. 35, no. 1, 2009, pp. 59–61. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/41690858. Accessed 23 Apr. 2020. Žižek, Slavoj. “Looking Awry.” October, vol. 50, 1989, pp. 31–55. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/778856. Accessed 23 Apr. 2020.