The films of Stephen King
Subtitle: from Carrie to Secret window
By: edited by Tony Magistrale.
Contributors: Magistrale, Tony.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York; Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire
Language: eng
Number of pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9780230601314
Subjects: King, Stephen, -- 1947- -- Film and video adaptations.; King, Stephen, -- 1947- -- Film and video adaptations -- Criticism and interpretation.
Genres: Film and video adaptations.
Other titles: From Carrie to Secret window
Notes: Includes bibliographic references (p. [199]-208) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The queen bee, the prom queen, and the girl next door: teen hierarchical structure in Carrie / Alison M. Kelly; title: Apt pupil: the making of a "bogeyboy" / Dennis F. Mahoney; title: Maybe it shouldn't be a party: kids, Keds, and death in Stephen King's Stand by me and Pet Sematary / Jeffrey A. Weinstock; title: The lonesome autoerotic death of Arnie Cunningham in John Carpenter's Christine / Philip Simpson; title: Tonka terrors: the humor and horror of "trucks" and Maximum overdrive / Michael A. Arnzen; title: The long dream of hopeless sorrow: the failure of the Communist myth in Kubrick's The shining / Michael J. Blouin; title: The prisoner, the pen, and the number one fan: Misery as a prison film / Mary Findley; title: Redemption through the feminine in The Shawshank redemption; or, Why Rita Hayworth's name belongs in the title / Tony Magistrale; title: Christian martyr or grateful slave? The magical negro as Uncle Tom in Frank Darabont's The green mile / Brian Kent; title: White soul: the "magical negro" in the films of Stephen King / Sarah Nilsen; title: Reaganomics, cocaine, and race: David Cronenberg's off-kilter America and The dead zone / Sarah E. Turner; title: The feminist King: Dolores Claiborne / Colleen Dolan; title: Only theoretical: postmodern ambiguity in Needful things and Storm of the Century / Mary Pharr; title: Rose red and Stephen King's hybrid house of horrors / Dennis R. Perry and Carl H. Sederholm; title: Gardening for a new generation of horror in Secret window / Benjamin Szumskyj.