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The Films of Stephen King: From Carrie to Secret Window by Magistrale, T.

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Binding
Hardcover
Weight
0 lbs
Product Group
Book
IsTextBook
No
ISBN
9780230601314
Book Title
Films of Stephen King : from Carrie to Secret Window
Item Length
8.3 in
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Publication Year
2008
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Illustrator
Yes
Item Height
0.7 in
Author
Tony Magistrale
Genre
Literary Criticism, Performing Arts, Fiction
Topic
Film / Genres / Horror, Film / General, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Horror, Television / History & Criticism, Film / History & Criticism
Item Width
5.8 in
Item Weight
14.6 Oz
Number of Pages
Xii, 248 Pages

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Product Information

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.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN-10
0230601316
ISBN-13
9780230601314
eBay Product ID (ePID)
60321577

Product Key Features

Book Title
Films of Stephen King : from Carrie to Secret Window
Author
Tony Magistrale
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Film / Genres / Horror, Film / General, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Horror, Television / History & Criticism, Film / History & Criticism
Publication Year
2008
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Literary Criticism, Performing Arts, Fiction
Number of Pages
Xii, 248 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
8.3 in
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Width
5.8 in
Item Weight
14.6 Oz

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Number of Volumes
1 Vol.
Lc Classification Number
Pn1993.5
Reviews
Praise for Magistrale'sHollywood'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 "This book is a useful elucidation of King's work through the skewed lens of Hollywood."--Publishers Weekly Review "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, Praise for Magistrale'sHollywood'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"This book is a useful elucidation of King's work through the skewed lens of Hollywood."--Publishers Weekly Review"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, 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 "This book is a useful elucidation of King's work through the skewed lens of Hollywood."--Publishers Weekly Review "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  , 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 "This book is a useful elucidation of King's work through the skewed lens of Hollywood."-- Publishers Weekly Review "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  , 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 "This book is a useful elucidation of King's work through the skewed lens of Hollywood."-- Publishers Weekly Review "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, Endorsements Praise for Magistrale's Hollywood's Stephen King: 'A great read, insightful and intelligent Tony has helped me improve my reputation from an ink-stained wretch popular novelist to an ink-stained wretch popular novelist with occasional flashes of muddy insight.' - Stephen King 'This book is a useful elucidation of King's work through the skewed lens of Hollywood.' - Publishers Weekly Review '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
Table of Content
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 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
Copyright Date
2008
Lccn
2013-431865
Dewey Decimal
791.436164
Dewey Edition
22

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