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PublisherPalgrave Macmillan

ISBN-100230338305

ISBN-139780230338302

eBay Product ID (ePID)109187306

Product Key Features

Number of PagesXii, 248 Pages

Publication NameFilms of Stephen King : from Carrie to the Mist

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2012

SubjectFilm / Genres / Horror, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Horror, General, Film / Direction & Production, Film / History & Criticism

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Performing Arts, Fiction

AuthorTony Magistrale

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.5 in

Item Weight11.5 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width5.6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

Dewey Edition23

ReviewsPraise for Magistrale's Hollywood's Stephen King : "A great read, insightful and intelligent. Tony has helped me improve my reputation from ink-stained wretch popular novelist to ink-stained wretch popular novelist with occasional flashes of muddy insight."--Stephen King "Magistrale digs deeper than mere plots, excavating compelling and disturbing themes in the gothic oeuvre of the master storyteller; he deserves accolades for bricking a foundational context for interpreting the enduring visions of King."-- CHOICE "This book is a useful elucidation of King's work through the skewed lens of Hollywood."-- Publishers Weekly Review, 'A great read, insightful and intelligent . . .Tony has helped me improve my reputation from ink-stained wretch popular novelist to ink-stained wretch popular novelist with occasional flashes of muddy insight.' - Stephen King 'Magistrale digs deeper than mere plots, excavating compelling and disturbing themes in the gothic oeuvre of the master storyteller; he deserves accolades for bricking a foundational context for interpreting the enduring visions of King.' - CHOICE 'This book is a useful elucidation of King's work through the skewed lens of Hollywood.' - Publishers Weekly Review, Praise for Magistrale's Hollywood's Stephen King : "A great read, insightful and intelligent...Tony has helped me improve my reputation from ink-stained wretch popular novelist to ink-stained wretch popular novelist with occasional flashes of muddy insight."--Stephen King "Magistrale digs deeper than mere plots, excavating compelling and disturbing themes in the gothic oeuvre of the master storyteller; he deserves accolades for bricking a foundational context for interpreting the enduring visions of King."-- CHOICE "This book is a useful elucidation of King's work through the skewed lens of Hollywood."-- Publishers Weekly Review, "A great read, insightful and intelligent...Tony has helped me improve my reputation from ink-stained wretch popular novelist to ink-stained wretch popular novelist with occasional flashes of muddy insight."--Stephen King "Magistrale digs deeper than mere plots, excavating compelling and disturbing themes in the gothic oeuvre of the master storyteller; he deserves accolades for bricking a foundational context for interpreting the enduring visions of King."-- CHOICE "This book is a useful elucidation of King's work through the skewed lens of Hollywood."-- Publishers Weekly Review , Praise for Magistrale's Hollywood's Stephen King : "A great read, insightful and intelligent...Tony has helped me improve my reputation from ink-stained wretch popular novelist to ink-stained wretch popular novelist with occasional flashes of muddy insight."--Stephen King "Magistrale digs deeper than mere plots, excavating compelling and disturbing themes in the gothic oeuvre of the master storyteller; he deserves accolades for bricking a foundational context for interpreting the enduring visions of King."-- CHOICE "This book is a useful elucidation of King's work through the skewed lens of Hollywood."-- Publishers Weekly Review

TitleLeadingThe

Number of Volumes1 vol.

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal791.436164

Table Of ContentThe Queen Bee, The Prom Queen, and the Girl Next Door: Teen Hierarchies in Carrie; A.M.Kelly Apt Pupil: The Making of a 'Bogey Boy'; D.Mahoney Maybe It Shouldn't Be a Party: Kids, Keds, and Death in Stephen King's Stand By Me and Pet Sematary; J.Weinstock Father Figure: Suffering and Salvation in Hearts in Atlantis; G.Hoppenstand The Lonesome Autoerotic Death of Arnie Cunningham in John Carpenter's Christine; P.Simpson Tonka Terrors: The Humor and Horror of Trucks and Maximum Overdrive; M.A.Arnzen The Long Dream of Hopeless Sorrow: The Failure of the Communist Myth in Kubrick's The Shining; M.J.Blouin The Prisoner, the Pen, and the Number One Fan: Misery as a Prison Film; M.Findley Redemption Through the Feminine in The Shawshank Redemption; or, Why Rita Hayworth's Name Belongs in the Title; T.Magistrale Christian Martyr or Grateful Slave?: The Magical Negro as Uncle Tom in Frank Darabont's The Green Mile; B.Kent The Maestro: Race in the Films of Stephen King; S.Neilson Reaganomics, Cocaine, and Race: David Cronenberg's Off-Kilter America and The Dead Zone; S.E.Turner The Feminist King: Dolores Claiborne; C.Dolan Only Theoretical: Postmodern Ambiguity in Needful Things and Storm of the Century; M.Pharr Rose Red and Stephen King's Hybrid House of Horrors; D.Perry & C.Sederholm Gardening for a New Generation of Horror in Secret Window; B.Szumskyj

SynopsisOver seventy-five films have been made based either on Stephen King narratives or screen/teleplay scripts that King himself authored, yet this body of work has received very little scholarly attention. The Films of Stephen King is the first collection of essays assembled on the cinematic adaptations of Stephen King. Written by cinema, television, and cultural studies scholars, this work examines the most important films from the King canon, from Carrie to The Shining to The Shawshank Redemption . Contributors focus on the most intriguing aspects of these movies - race, gender, and technology - and draw conclusions on their socio-political relevance. With updated material on 1408 , The Mist , and more!, The Films of Stephen King is the first collection of essays assembled on the cinematic adaptations of Stephen King. The individual chapters, written by cinema, television, and cultural studies scholars, examine the most important films from the King canon, from Carrie to The Shining to The Shawshank Redemption., The first collection of essays assembled on the cinematic adaptations of Stephen King and written by cinema, television, and cultural studies scholars, this work examines the most important films from the King canon, from Carrie to The Shining to The Shawshank Redemption .

LC Classification NumberHM621-HM656