Author Rod Munday

Rod Munday

Rod Munday is a lecturer in Digital Culture and Gaming at Aberystwyth University. He is also the webmaster of The Kubrick Site (visual-memory.co.uk/amk). His recent Kubrick related publications include a paper for the French journal, Essais, (2017), and a chapter in the forthcoming book, The Bloomsbury Companion to Stanley Kubrick (2020). He is also the co-author with Daniel Chandler of the Oxford Dictionary of Media and Communication (2020) and the Oxford Dictionary of Social Media (2013).

The Shining: An Afterlife in Memes

Rod Munday

July 2020

The Shining at 40

For a film about the afterlife, The Shining has had an unusual afterlife of its own. Forty years after its initial release, the imagery of Kubrick’s only horror film pervades popular culture, not least as a vis...