The films of Stephen King : from Carrie to Secret window / edited by Tony Magistrale.

Format:

Book

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

King, Stephen, 1947---Film adaptations.

King, Stephen.

King, Stephen, 1947-.

Genre:

Film adaptations.

Physical Description:

xi, 212 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, [2008]

Summary:

Over 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. 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. Contributors focus on the most intriguing aspects of these movies: race, gender, and technology, and draw conclusions on their socio-political relevance.

Contents:

1 The Queen Bee, the Prom Queen, and the Girl Next Door: Teen Hierarchical Structures in Carrie / Alison M. Kelly 11

2 Apt Pupil: The Making of a "Bogeyboy" / Dennis F. Mahoney 25

3 Maybe It Shouldn't Be a Party: Kids, Keds, and Death in Stephen King's Stand By Me and Pet Sematary / Jeffrey A. Weinstock 39

4 The Lonesome Autoerotic Death of Arnie Cunningham in John Carpenter's Christine / Philip Simpson 51

5 Tonka Terrors: The Humor and Horror of "Trucks" and Maximum Overdrive / Michael A. Arnzen 65

6 The Long Dream of Hopeless Sorrow: The Failure of the Communist Myth in Kubrick's The Shining / Michael J. Blouin 81

7 The Prisoner, the Pen, and the Number One Fan: Misery as a Prison Film / Mary Findley 91

8 Redemption through the Feminine in The Shawshank Redemption; Or, Why Rita Hayworth's Name Belongs in the Title / Tony Magistrale 101

9 Christian Martyr or Grateful Slave? The Magical Negro as Uncle Tom in Frank Darabont's The Green Mile / Brian Kent 115

10 White Soul: The "Magical Negro" in the Films of Stephen King / Sarah Nilsen 129

11 Reaganomics, Cocaine, and Race: David Cronenberg's Off-Kilter America and The Dead Zone / Sarah E. Turner 141

12 The Feminist King: Dolores Claiborne / Colleen Dolan 153

13 Only Theoretical: Postmodern Ambiguity in Needful Things and Storm of the Century / Mary Pharr 165

14 Rose Red and Stephen King's Hybrid House of Horrors / Dennis R. Perry, Carl H. Sederholm 177

15 Gardening for a New Generation of Horror in Secret Window / Benjamin Szumskyj 189.

Notes:

Contains bibliographic references pages [199] - 208 and index.

ISBN:

9780230601314

0230601316

OCLC:

192002039