Author Craig Buckley

Craig Buckley

Craig Buckley is an assistant professor of modern and contemporary architecture in the Department of the History of Art at Yale University. He holds a PhD from Princeton University, and has taught at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation Columbia University before coming to Yale. His research interests include the intersections of modern architecture with avant-garde movements, the entanglement of architecture with the technics, poetics, and politics of media, and the historiography of modern architecture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He is the author of Graphic Assembly: Montage, Media and Experimental Architecture in the 1960s, (University of Minnesota Press, 2019). His most recent book, edited with Yale colleagues Francesco Casetti and Rüdiger Campe, is entitled Screen Genealogies: From Optical Device to Environmental Medium, and has just been published by University of Amsterdam Press. He is also the editor of numerous collections, including After the Manifesto: Writing, Architecture, and Media in a New Century (Columbia University Press, 2014) and Utopie: Image, Text, Project 1967-1978, (Semiotext(e), 2011). He is currently at work on a new book about transnational cinema architecture from the 1920s to the 1960s.

The Shining’s Disjunctive Spaces

Craig Buckley

July 2020

The Shining at 40

Note Few buildings in the history of cinema are as essential to the plot of a film as the Overlook hotel in Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining. The film recounts the experience of the Torrance family who come to ...