Episode 237: CoinWeek Podcast #237: The Gold Standard in Kubrick's the Shining (with Rob Ager).

Ok, ok, we are skipping ahead in our numbering sequence, but how could we resist?

Numismatics can pop up anywhere and in this episode of the CoinWeek Podcast, we take a very unexpected turn and discuss one of several embedded symbolic themes of filmmaker Stanley Kubrick’s class horror film the Shining.

The film the Shining is based on Stephen King’s horror novel of the same name but has a number of unique storytelling elements of its own. The horror novelist famously disapproved of Kubrick’s treatment, but that hasn’t stopped the film from being a landmark in its own right. I first saw the Shining as a youngster, much too young to deal with this sinister ghost story and it has haunted me ever since.

In this Podcast, I interview Rob Ager, a popular YouTuber, and film analyst, whose channel Collative Learning breaks films down to a granular level. Just the kind of youtube blackhole you late night insomniacs might be after once you’ve put away your last bottle of jewel luster and air-dried your last batch of Morgan dollars. Rob produced a series of videos about the Shining and Kubrick’s Gold Standard symbolism and we wanted to talk to him about it.

Get ready to get creeped out…. Next on the CoinWeek Podcast

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