"How Do You Like It?" Jack Torrance's Typewriter at the Stanley Kubrick Exhibit
Actually, this is Stanley Kubrick's Adler typewriter. There is another theory that was presented in "Room 237" that actually is worth reading about, but the way it is presented in the film makes it come off as yet another crackpot tinfoil hat conspiracy theory. The topic in question is the book "The Wolf at the Door: Stanley Kubrick, History and the Holocaust," an intelligently written (and exhaustively researched) book by Geoffrey Cocks, a professor of history and psychology at Albion College in Albion, Michigan. Dr. Cocks' basic thesis is that Kubrick had been putting hidden messages into his films, not just "The Shining," that point out aspects of the Holocaust. Even if one doesn't buy into his thesis, the book in an interesting read, presented in a highly trained scholarly way. "The Shining" gets more chapters in the book, as Dr. Cocks suggests that what Jack Torrance is doing for those ghosts that inhabit the Overlook Hotel is similar (in an allegorical way) to what the common everyday German did in their routine office jobs, far away from the true horrors that went on elsewhere during WWII. I may not be offering a proper defense of Dr. Cocks' book in this brief description here, but the typewriter seen in the photo is suggested by Dr. Cocks to be a key element in drawing those parallels.
"How Do You Like It?" Jack Torrance's Typewriter at the Stanley Kubrick Exhibit
Actually, this is Stanley Kubrick's Adler typewriter. There is another theory that was presented in "Room 237" that actually is worth reading about, but the way it is presented in the film makes it come off as yet another crackpot tinfoil hat conspiracy theory. The topic in question is the book "The Wolf at the Door: Stanley Kubrick, History and the Holocaust," an intelligently written (and exhaustively researched) book by Geoffrey Cocks, a professor of history and psychology at Albion College in Albion, Michigan. Dr. Cocks' basic thesis is that Kubrick had been putting hidden messages into his films, not just "The Shining," that point out aspects of the Holocaust. Even if one doesn't buy into his thesis, the book in an interesting read, presented in a highly trained scholarly way. "The Shining" gets more chapters in the book, as Dr. Cocks suggests that what Jack Torrance is doing for those ghosts that inhabit the Overlook Hotel is similar (in an allegorical way) to what the common everyday German did in their routine office jobs, far away from the true horrors that went on elsewhere during WWII. I may not be offering a proper defense of Dr. Cocks' book in this brief description here, but the typewriter seen in the photo is suggested by Dr. Cocks to be a key element in drawing those parallels.