The Films of Stephen King: From Carrie to Secret Window

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
Notes on Contributors......Page 10
Introduction......Page 14
1 The Queen Bee, the Prom Queen, and the Girl Next Door: Teen Hierarchical Structures in Carrie......Page 24
2 Apt Pupil: The Making of a “Bogeyboy”......Page 38
3 Maybe It Shouldn’t Be a Party: Kids, Keds, and Death in Stephen King’s Stand By Me and Pet Sematary......Page 52
4 The Lonesome Autoerotic Death of Arnie Cunningham in John Carpenter’s Christine......Page 64
5 Tonka Terrors: The Humor and Horror of “Trucks” and Maximum Overdrive......Page 78
6 The Long Dream of Hopeless Sorrow: The Failure of the Communist Myth in Kubrick’s The Shining......Page 94
7 The Prisoner, the Pen, and the Number One Fan: Misery as a Prison Film......Page 104
8 Redemption through the Feminine in The Shawshank Redemption; Or, Why Rita Hayworth’s Name Belongs in the Title......Page 114
9 Christian Martyr or Grateful Slave? The Magical Negro as Uncle Tom in Frank Darabont’s The Green Mile......Page 128
10 White Soul: The “Magical Negro” in the Films of Stephen King......Page 142
11 Reaganomics, Cocaine, and Race: David Cronenberg’s Off-Kilter America and The Dead Zone......Page 154
12 The Feminist King: Dolores Claiborne......Page 166
13 Only Theoretical: Postmodern Ambiguity in Needful Things and Storm of the Century......Page 178
14 Rose Red and Stephen King’s Hybrid House of Horrors......Page 190
15 Gardening for a New Generation of Horror in Secret Window......Page 202
Bibliography......Page 212
D......Page 222
K......Page 223
R......Page 224
Y......Page 225