"Novels are novels, and films are films - and when the twain meet, it's a miracle. Hollywood's Stephen King is an important critical work and one that should be on the shelves of everyone who is interested in King, popular culture, cultural studies, and film." - Carol Senf, professor at The Georgia Institute of Technology Why didn't I think of that?' Reading Hollywood's Stephen King was a pleasure that brought back pleasant memories of the good film adaptations and explained why so many other adaptations were less successful. As I read the manuscript, I kept making marginal notes like 'Insightful,' 'Interesting,' and 'Wow.
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"Finally! Tony Magistrale explores many of the movie versions of Stephen King's works and provides important insights into both the films and the fiction on which they are based. This book is a keeper." - Mary Pharr, editor of Fantastic Odysseys: Selected Essays from the Twenty-Second International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts The section on Dolores Claiborne is simply the best analysis I've ever read of that under-appreciated film, and Magistrale is well ahead of most critics in his understanding of the moral implications of King's most somber work, the original teleplay "Storm of the Century." Overall, Hollywood's Stephen King amply confirms Tony Magistrale's position as the dean of King critics.
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The entire volume is worth reading, but its highlights include astute evaluations of Carrie and Cujo, Apt Pupil, The Dead Zone, The Running Man, The Night Flier, and both the cinematic and TV versions of The Shining.
These chapters are bookended by a particularly candid new interview with King and an equally frank chapter on the strengths and weaknesses of King's made-for-television movies. For the most part, Magistrale eschews cinematic theory and technical miscellany instead, he offers an exceptionally perceptive literary overview of the way Hollywood has interpreted - and misinterpreted - King's fiction.Īfter a preface that investigates and refutes the notion that King's films are not worthy of serious consideration, Magistrale divides his book into chapters analyzing a selection of those films that center on children, on females, on fathers, on heroes, and on technology. In this study, he uses that style to probe King's most important movies and miniseries for their significance as literary parables that serve as social metaphors. As always, Magistrale writes in an accessible but contemplative manner, one that allows both devotees and academics to grasp his work. Like others before him, Magistrale examines a selection of movies and miniseries adapted from King's fiction or created by King himself, but two factors make Hollywood's Stephen King different from its predecessors: its stylistic lucidity and its literary focus. Now, in Hollywood's Stephen King, Magistrale has written an indispensable addition to the field.
"As the most perceptive of the myriad of critics who have studied Stephen King's canon over the last several decades, Tony Magistrale has a just claim to the title of premier King scholar in America. ".a useful elucidation of King's work through the skewed lens of Hollywood." - Publishers Weekly
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