The Films of Stephen King: From Carrie to Secret Window

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introduction....Pages 1-10
The Queen Bee, the Prom Queen, and the Girl Next Door....Pages 11-23
Apt Pupil: The Making of a “Bogeyboy”....Pages 25-38
Maybe It Shouldn’t Be a Party....Pages 39-49
The Lonesome Autoerotic Death of Arnie Cunningham in John Carpenter’s Christine ....Pages 51-64
Tonka Terrors....Pages 65-79
The Long Dream of Hopeless Sorrow: The Failure of the Communist Myth in Kubrick’s The Shining ....Pages 81-90
The Prisoner, the Pen, and the Number One Fan....Pages 91-100
Redemption through the Feminine in The Shawshank Redemption; Or, Why Rita Hayworth’s Name Belongs in the Title....Pages 101-113
Christian Martyr or Grateful Slave?....Pages 115-127
White Soul....Pages 129-140
Reaganomics, Cocaine, and Race....Pages 141-151
The Feminist King: Dolores Claiborne ....Pages 153-163
Only Theoretical....Pages 165-176
Rose Red and Stephen King’s Hybrid House of Horrors....Pages 177-187
Gardening for a New Generation of Horror in Secret Window ....Pages 189-197
Back Matter....Pages 199-212