Edited by Danel Olson ( The Exorcist: Studies in the Horror Film ), with seventeen new interviews by Justin Bozung and recent Paris/London conversations with co-screenwriter Diane Johnson and the legendary Shining Twins by Catriona McAvoy, this study is the first featuring recent reminiscences with cast & crew of The Shining and original interdisciplinary essays by top critics. This landmark edition also includes rare and unpublished photographs, archival material, seminal reprints, and galleries of artwork & posters inspired by the Kubrick film, all on heavy acid-free paper in two full-color, brilliantly-designed Smyth-sewn paperback. I've just read your masterful book from cover-to-cover and have to tell you how thorough, creative, complete and helpful the work is - it will definitely become a document from which film students will learn for decades to come. -Veteran filmmaker/IMAX camera developer and Shining cinematographer, Greg MacGillivray Olson's "Stanley Kubrick's The Shining: Studies est indispensiable non seulement aux fans du film, mais également à tous ceux desireux d'élargir leur réflexion autour de l'une des oeuvres les pluys importantes de quarante dernières années, qui n'en finit pas de disiperses mysteres et son unique pouvoir de fascination." --Laurent Vachaud, Positif , June 2016 (print) For this excellent and exhaustive compendium of Shining lore, editor Danel Olson has collected deep-dish essays, unseen pics and exhaustive interviews (with cast and crew), beginning with an introduction by Pixar's Lee Unkrich (a noted Shining zealot). A satisfying study in filmmaking, not kooky Room 237 theorising, it feels like nothing has been overlooked . -Ian Nathan, Empire , 07/2015 (print) Book of the Month... Enthusiasts will drool over the immaculate detail put into this 10-years-in-the-making tome. -C. Jackson, Fangoria 07/2015 (print) Cover[ing] everything fans of the film ever wanted to know, the hefty tome is packed with academic essays, as well as new and classic interviews with the movie's cast and crew, including the elusive Kubrick... It illuminates interesting facts that have only come to light through this publication, including that Jane Fonda was originally considered for the role of Wendy Torrance and co-screenwriter Diane Johnson wanted to bring a feminist bent to the character... The book [also] boasts incredible alternative poster artwork. -Andrea Subissati, Rue Morgue , 07/2015 (print) Has the distinction of being the largest book I've read in years, a huge doorstop of a thing that tells you everything you wanted to know about Kubrick's film of the King novel and yet at the end paradoxically leaves the reader thinking that this is only the iceberg tip of what's to be learnt. An obvious labour of love on the part of editor Danel Olson, ten years in the making, the book is lavishly illustrated with stills from the film, on set photographs of the cast and crew, and more quirky items such as make-up artist Tom Smith's evocative line drawings of Kubrick, Nicholson, Duvall, and other luminaries, plus reproductions of pages from the script and notes made by Kubrick and others. -Peter Tennant, Black Static: Dark Fiction & Film , 05/2016 (print) The essays, as Director Lee Unkrich's introduction explains, were provided by 'a range of commentators,' including 'documentarians, philosophers, scientists, literature critics, film scholars and fiction writers' explor[ing] completely different aspect[s] of The Shining.. . Olson's maximalist efforts pay off here, though: it's the exhaustive, detailed, and complete nature of the The Shining: Studies in the Horror Film that gives it a chance of becoming the definitive scholarly source on a film widely recognized as one of the greatest of all time. -Craig Manning, IndependentPublisher.com , 7/2015 Centipede Press continue[s] its impressive series Studies of the Horror Film with _Stanley Kubrick's 'The Shining'_ edited by Danel Olson. The hefty 750-page volume is filled with color photographs taken from the movie, and the text includes cast and crew interviews in addition to eleven essays about the movie. -Ellen Datlow, The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Eight , 2016 Having just been to the Shining reunion and bonded with the surviving crew (and the sadly depleted studio environs), reading your great compendium has been even more fun. It evoked a marvelous time in the business and an especially wonderful shoot. -Steadicam/SkyCam/DiveCam inventor and Shining cinematographer, Garrett Brown The SHINING book looks splendid!! - Guillermo del Toro "Jack, just make yourself at home..." For almost four decades, viewers have crept with the Torrances through Overlook corridors and run through its maze. Now in the largest collection of new and reprint interviews, essays, and reminiscences on Stanley Kubrick's The Shining to date (along with unseen photographs), we can discover who or what else m