Stanley Kubrick’s Annotated Copy of Stephen King’s The Shining
Love it or hate it, the Kubrick version of Stephen King’s The Shining is a film to be reckoned with. Here is a piece of that film’s creation that I would love to just sit back and spend hours with:
The web site Overlook Hotel has posted pictures of Stanley Kubrick’spersonal copy of Stephen King’s novel The Shining, which is normally kept at the Stanley Kubrick Archive, but has been making the rounds in a traveling exhibition. The book is filled with highlighted passages and largely illegible notes in the margin—tantalizing clues to Kubrick’s intentions for the movie.
Read the full article and see more photos @ Open Culture.
Michael Sauers is currently the Director of Technology for Do Space in Omaha, NE. Michael has been training librarians in technology for the past twenty years and has also been a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, serials cataloger, technology consultant, and bookseller since earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany’s School of Information Science and Policy. Michael has also written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and his fourteenth book, Emerging Technologies: A Primer for Librarians (w/ Jennifer Koerber) was published in May 2015 and more books are on the way. In his spare time he blogs at travelinlibrarian.info, runs The Collector’s Guide to Dean Koontz Web site, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
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Love it or hate it, the Kubrick version of Stephen King’s The Shining is a film to be reckoned with. Here is a piece of that film’s creation that I would love to just sit back and spend hours with: