Stephen King on the Big Screen by Mark Browning - 9781841502458

Stephen King on the Big ScreenAuthor(s): Mark Browning\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Intellect, United Kingdom\nImprint: Intellect Books\nISBN-13: 9781841502458, 978-1841502458\nSynopsis\nFrom 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 worlds best-selling author are much more successful than [url] 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, Kings stories form the basis for dozens of narratives, which are clearly not horror from Stand By Me to Hearts in Atlantis. How are The Green Mile and The Shawshank Redemption successful as prison movies? How do Cujo and The Shining work as family dramas? Are Dreamcatcher and Christine merely updated 1950s B-movies? The book is th.