The films of Stephen King: from Carrie to Secret Window

The films of Stephen King: from Carrie to Secret Window

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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'. . Tony Magistrale is Professor and Associate Chair of the English Departmentat the University of Vermont, USA. He has published twenty books and is widely considered one of America's foremost scholars of horror film, gothic fiction, and the work of Stephen King. INDICE: The 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 inHearts in Atlantis; G.Hoppenstand. The Lonesome Autoerotic Death of Arnie Cunningham in John Carpenter's Christine; P.Simpson. Tonka Terrors: The Humor andHorror 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. .

  • ISBN: 978-0-230-60131-4
  • Editorial: Palgrave MacM
  • Encuadernacion: Cartoné
  • Páginas: 240
  • Fecha Publicación: 09/04/2008
  • Nº Volúmenes: 1
  • Idioma: Inglés