The Films of Stephen King From Carrie to

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.

Tony Magistrale is Professor and Associate Chair of the English Department at the University of Vermont. He has published twenty books and is widely considered one of America’s foremost scholars of horror film, gothic fiction, and the work of Stephen King.

Notes on Contributors	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
The Queen Bee, the Prom Queen, and the Girl Next Door: Teen Hierarchical Structures in Carrie	p. 11
Apt Pupil: The Making of a "Bogeyboy"	p. 25
Maybe It Shouldn't Be a Party: Kids, Keds, and Death in Stephen King's Stand By Me and Pet Sematary	p. 39
The Lonesome Autoerotic Death of Arnie Cunningham in John Carpenter's Christine	p. 51
Tonka Terrors: The Humor and Horror of "Trucks" and Maximum Overdrive	p. 65
The Long Dream of Hopeless Sorrow: The Failure of the Communist Myth in Kubrick's The Shining	p. 81
The Prisoner, the Pen, and the Number One Fan: Misery as a Prison Film	p. 91
Redemption through the Feminine in The Shawshank Redemption; Or, Why Rita Hayworth's Name Belongs in the Title	p. 101
Christian Martyr or Grateful Slave? The Magical Negro as Uncle Tom in Frank Darabont's The Green Mile	p. 115
White Soul: The "Magical Negro" in the Films of Stephen King	p. 129
Reaganomics, Cocaine, and Race: David Cronenberg's Off-Kilter America and The Dead Zone	p. 141
The Feminist King: Dolores Claiborne	p. 153
Only Theoretical: Postmodern Ambiguity in Needful Things and Storm of the Century	p. 165
Rose Red and Stephen King's Hybrid House of Horrors	p. 177
Gardening for a New Generation of Horror in Secret Window	p. 189
Bibliography	p. 199
Index	p. 209
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The Films of Stephen King From Carrie to Secret Window

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