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Creepshow / Simon Brown.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Brown, Simon (Simon David), author.
Series:
Devil's advocates.
Liverpool scholarship online.
Devil's advocates
Liverpool scholarship online
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Horror films.
Creepshow (Motion picture : 1982).
Romero, George A.
King, Stephen, 1947---Film adaptations.
King, Stephen.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (120 pages) : illustrations (black and white).
Place of Publication:
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2021.
Summary:
Released in cinemas in 1982, 'Creepshow' is typically regarded as a minor entry in both the film output of George A. Romero and the history of adaptations of the works of Stephen King. Yet this lack of critical attention hides the fact that 'Creepshow' is the only full collaboration between America's bestselling author of horror tales and one of the masters of modern American horror cinema. Long considered too mainstream for the director of 'Dawn of the Dead' (1978), too comic for the author that gave audiences the film versions of 'Carrie' (1976) and 'The Shining' (1980), and too violent for a cinemagoing public turning away from gore cinema in the autumn of 1982, 'Creepshow' is here reassessed by Simon Brown, who examines the making and release of the film and its legacy through a comic book adaptation and two sequels.
Notes:
Previously issued in print: Leighton Buzzard: Auteur, 2019.
Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on January 19, 2021).
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:
1-80085-054-9
1-80034-247-0
1-80034-727-8

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