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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Browning, Mark,

Titel

Stephen King on the big screen [electronic resource]

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• EBSCOhost Film and Television Literature Index with Full Text

  Verfügbar von 2009.

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Description based upon print version of record.
• Includes bibliographical references.
• Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1 - Mind Over Matter: Telekinesis; Chapter 2 - Tales from the Darkside: The Portmanteau film; Chapter 3 - Sometimes Dead is Better: The Body Under the Sheet; Chapter 4 - Boys to Men: Rites-of-Passage; Chapter 5 - The Rise of the Machines: 1950s Science-Fiction B-Movie; Chapter 6 - The Great Escape: Prison Drama; Chapter 7 - Books of Blood: The Writer; Chapter 8 - The Terror of Everyday Life and Final Girls; Conclusion; References
• From 1976 to the present day, there have been over 45 films adapted from the spine-tingling works of Stephen King. In Stephen King on the Big Screen, Mark Browning addresses the question of why some of the film adaptations of the world's best-selling author are much more successful than others.By focussing on the theoretical aspect of genre, Browning brings an original approach to familiar films and suggests new ways of viewing them. Although often associated with the macabre, King's stories form the basis for dozens of narratives, which are clearly not horror from Stand By Me to Hearts in Atl
• English