I Am Jack's Ax: Breaking Down the Barriers of Stanley Kubrick's Film The Shining

by R. H. Vatcher

Overview

I Am Jack's Ax describes what viewers didn't observe in the orignal film The Shining (1980). This book will explain the ghost narratives that are floating invisibly throughout the film. 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781087854083
Publisher:	Shoulder Books
Publication date:	11/24/2019
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	278
File size:	15 MB
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About the Author

R.H. Vatcher grew up in Oradell, N.J. and joined the US Navy, and USS Independence in 1989 as an Electronic Warfare Technician. Having lived abroad for ten years in China 中国 after assisting with the construction of the San Francisco Bay Bridge as part of a team of QA consultants, he returned to the United States to write, and illustrate "I Am Jack's Ax" in May, 2017. When not writing zombie comedies, and other zany classified chronicles, R.H. is usually chasing Shawshank Chipmunk out of his cabin in Fort Garland. Speaks Mandarin.

Table of Contents

PREFAC E .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

HOMILY ANOMALIES.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Orlan do ’ 8 9 .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

ICE BOX FOLLIEs.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Bali, November ’ 1 6 .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Shanghai ’ 1 7 .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Fort Garlan d ’ 1 8 .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

SUMMER OF ’42.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

ALEMBIC.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

ZEITGEIST IN THE LENS.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

RUMER HAS I T .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

THINK THINK THINK.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

42 WAYS TO LEAVE YOUR LOVER.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

THE THIN SLICE OF SPACE.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164

RANK AND F I L E .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 7 1

COMPOSED ASSISTANCE.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184

THE AWAKENING OF JACK.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201

GHOSTWRITER.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205

FREE ANOTHER BARREL.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222

PART I TYPECASTING WITH A NEW HOOK.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225

EMPTY GL ASS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227

PART II CASTING YOUR REEL INTO THE DEAD SEA OF FILM.. . . . 238

THE 7-UP SOLUTION.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254

BRIDGING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266

Editorial Reviews

"Fun, intelligent, entertaining, yet serious. It illustrates well and tingles awake a sense of mystery" R. H. Vatcher takes you on a comprehensive journey through the mystery that is the ghost narratives of Stanley Kubrick's film The Shining.

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