i was watching Room 237 last night, about the room where there is nothing in The Shining. some of it was crazy maybe and at least inconsequential, like kubrick filming the moon landing with front projection. like who care if it was so. but the observation that the subject of The Shining was genocide, and that this particular shining was about the american genocide on the native peoples, was clear from his film, as other holocausts were in other films. none of his work settled into complacent genre.
the hotel was built on native burial grounds, and the living natives fought the occupiers. the hotel made Indians thematic in the decor, which i'm sure did not placate the angry ghosts. Calumet "double-acting" baking powder is placed carefully in frame, calumet being peace pipe. the indian on the can sports a big chief headdress. his face is fire red, without eyes or feature.

 johnny's typewriter was a german Adler, meaning eagle, with an eagle symbol exactly like the symbol of the third reich, and by association, the american eagle. he wrote to hilberg, writer of the destruction of the european jews. the eagle symbolic of state power and the bureaucratic apparatus of killing shows up again and again in various forms and guises. on t-shirts and ads. so the link is made if subliminally between the german holocaust and the american. and with the propaganda of tv, on which the summer of 42 plays.

 and kubrick studied subliminal advertising, he was a magazine photographer, and understood, and he asked the experts on madison avenue. he incorporated subliminal advertising in The Shining, in a subversive way. to make people confront the ghosts of the past even underfoot, even rising up the elevator shaft, even in johnny's alcoholic derangement. 

 and his wife and child are new victims. yet they are able to Shine, to see the ghosts, and see through time and propaganda, to see that johnny is insane and his opus is the harrowing mountain of endless iterations of all work and no play makes johnny a dull boy.

 and they are able to retrace their steps, to defeat the real monster, the present one with the ax, and find the way out of the maze of history.