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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.
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- Cover
- Half-Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction
- 1 The Queen Bee, the Prom Queen, and the Girl Next Door: Teen Hierarchical Structures in Carrie
- 2 Apt Pupil: The Making of a “Bogeyboy”
- 3 Maybe It Shouldn’t Be a Party: Kids, Keds, and Death in Stephen King’s Stand By Me and Pet Sematary
- 4 The Lonesome Autoerotic Death of Arnie Cunningham in John Carpenter’s Christine
- 5 Tonka Terrors: The Humor and Horror of “Trucks” and Maximum Overdrive
- 6 The Long Dream of Hopeless Sorrow: The Failure of the Communist Myth in Kubrick’s The Shining
- 7 The Prisoner, the Pen, and the Number One Fan: Misery as a Prison Film
- 8 Redemption through the Feminine in The Shawshank Redemption; Or, Why Rita Hayworth’s Name Belongs in the Title
- 9 Christian Martyr or Grateful Slave? The Magical Negro as Uncle Tom in Frank Darabont’s The Green Mile
- 10 White Soul: The “Magical Negro” in the Films of Stephen King
- 11 Reaganomics, Cocaine, and Race: David Cronenberg’s Off-Kilter America and The Dead Zone
- 12 The Feminist King: Dolores Claiborne
- 13 Only Theoretical: Postmodern Ambiguity in Needful Things and Storm of the Century
- 14 Rose Red and Stephen King’s Hybrid House of Horrors
- 15 Gardening for a New Generation of Horror in Secret Window
- Bibliography
- Index