Resumen

CALABRESE, Omar. Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining: a system of colors and passions. Tóp. Sem [online]. 2012, n.28, pp.63-78. ISSN 2594-0619.

Through a general assessment of the levels of expression displayed by The Shining (United Kingdom-U.S.A., 1980), a film directed by Stanley Kubrick, this article intends to demonstrate just how the emergence of a complex chromatic system articulated by particularly strong chromatic contrasts- contributes to the onset of an equally dense passion-system. Special attention is given to the semi-symbolic machinery generated by the intertwining of expression and content through the appearance of a whole series of plastic formants that, throughout the enunciation, are linked to certain passionate figures, amongst them madness, frenzy, and horror.