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This chapter looks at actor Scatman Crothers and his role as Dick Hallorann, a psychic hotel chef, in Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining (1980).
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O’Brien, D. (2017). Leaving the Overlook: Black heroism and white nightmare in The Shining . In: Black Masculinity on Film. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59323-8_8
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