The Shining is a meta-reflection on postmodernity itself.

Evidence

According to Jameson, then, The Shining, then, is a “metageneric” reflection on the ghost story (a ghost story that is about ghost stories). Yet I want to claim The Shining does not belong to postmodernity, but rather to postmodernity’s doppelganger, hauntology. We could go so far as to say that it is a meta-reflection on postmodernity itself. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 516

Categorization

• DEFINE: Positions the film as belonging to hauntology rather than postmodern repetition.