King's novels and short stories have formed the basis for a large number of film adaptations and have attracted the attention of such innovative directors as Brian De Palma, Tobe Hooper, John Carpenter, George A. Romero, and Lewis Teague. Perhaps none has been so controversial, however, as the 1980 film version of The Shining, directed by the celebrated Stanley Kubrick. King himself was clearly disappointed with Kubrick's handling of his novel (an attitude which he has not, incidentally, expressed with regard to most adaptations of his work), and critics have generally tended to view it as the sort of grand failure which men of genius are occasionally permitted. Kubrick's essential method was to reduce the novel's themes and structures to several monolithically sustained effects.
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