Product Description: A Deluxe Edition to Benefit Media Education: The iconic radio station WRUV has been on the air since 1955, when it first began broadcasting out of its smoke-filled studio at the University of Vermont in Burlington. Over the years, programming has ranged from the conventional to the absurd, from pleasant to downright disturbing...read more

Product Description: Language:Chinese.Paperback. Pub Date: December 2011 Pages: 248 in Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan The first collection of essays assembled on the cinematic adaptations of Stephen Kingand written by cinema. television. and cultural studies scholars...read more

Product Description: Edgar Allan Poe is a popular author, and students have often read his work by the time they reach the college or university classroom. His writings have inspired film, television, and musical adaptations―sources for much of students' knowledge about Poe...read more

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    One of the very first books to take Stephen King seriously, Landscape of Fear (originally published in 1988) reveals the source of King's horror in the sociopolitical anxieties of the post-Vietnam, post-Watergate era. In this groundbreaking study, Tony Magistrale shows how King's fiction transcends the escapism typical of its genre to tap into our deepest cultural fears: "that the government we have installed through the democratic process is not only corrupt but actively pursuing our destruction, that our technologies have progressed to the point at which the individual has now become expendable, and that our fundamental social institutions-school, marriage, workplace, and the church-have, beneath their veneers of respectability, evolved into perverse manifestations of narcissism, greed, and violence."    Tracing King's moralist vision to the likes of Twain, Hawthorne, and Melville, Landscape of Fear establishes the place of this popular writer within the grand tradition of American literature. Like his literary forbears, King gives us characters that have the capacity to make ethical choices in an imperfect, often evil world. Yet he inscribes that conflict within unmistakably modern settings. From the industrial nightmare of "Graveyard Shift" to the breakdown of the domestic sphere in The Shining, from the techno-horrors of The Stand to the religious fanaticism and adolescent cruelty depicted in Carrie, Magistrale charts the contours of King's fictional landscape in its first decade.

A definitive overview of film adaptations of the works of horror master Stephen King analyzes the thematic, narative, and character links that are revealed among his films, exploring such popular films as Stand By Me, Misery, The Shining, The Green Mile, and The Shawshank Redemption, among others. Original. 15,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

Introduces the life and work of Poe, explores his contributions to American literature, and analyzes his poetry, tales of love and terror, and detective stories.

Product Description: This study traces Edgar Allan Poe’s contribution to the Gothic tradition and his invention of the detective tale. It explores the connections between these genres in British and American writers influenced by Poe, such as Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Louis Stevenson, Thomas Harris, and Stephen King...read more

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Product Description: Defines the shape of horror fiction today.

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Provides a critical look at King's more recent works (view table of contents)

Trade Paperback Starmont Studies in Literary Criticism #30: 15 scholarly essays on THE SHINING, by various academics, 12 dealing with King's original book and 3 with the Kubrick film adaption. (No contribution by King himself is present.) The Title-Page bears the date 1990, but on the Copyright Page a publication date of 1991 is given. Never reprinted, though a simultaneous hardcover edition is listed as having also been published.

Product Description: Magistrale discusses the themes that turn King's fiction into morality tales.