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Taylor & Francis Ltd Literary Interventions in the Campaign Biography
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University Press of Mississippi King Noir
Book SynopsisOver the past thirty years, Stephen King has received enormous attention from both the popular press as well as academics seeking to explain the unique phenomenon of his success. Books on King explore his canon in religious contexts, in political and historical contexts, in mythicspecifically Jungiancontexts, in Gothic/horror (especially American literary) contexts, and in a wide variety of other contexts appropriate to a writer who, over the past half century, has become "America's Storyteller." Beginning with a never-published chapter authored by Stephen King himself on the influence of the genre on his own writing, King Noir makes an invaluable contribution to King scholarship by placing King's works in conversation with American crime fiction. This is the third book that Tony Magistrale and Michael J. Blouin have coauthored on the work of Stephen King, and the first to consider King's canon through the lens of crime fiction. King Noir examines not only King's own efforts at writing in the detective genre, but also how the detective genre finds its way into work typically regarded as horror fiction. In interviews, King has acknowledged his debt to earlier writers in the genre, such as Ed McBain and Raymond Chandler, and he much more often references hardboiled writers than he does horror writers. One could speculate that King became a writer because of his love of pulpy crime fiction, which he continues to hold in high esteem. From The Dead Zone to Mr. Mercedes, from the crime fiction of his pseudonym Richard Bachman to his most recent novel Holly, King returns obsessively to patterns established by American sleuths of every stripe, paying homage to them at the same time as he innovates on the formulas he has inherited. To focus upon a hardboiled Stephen King is to discover exciting new avenues for inquiry into one of America's most enduring, and adaptable, storytellers.
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Cambridge University Press Democracy and the American Gothic
Book SynopsisThe American Gothic decentralizes by exposing malaise and reflects the widespread mistrust of the masses. This Element theorizes the democratic and anti-democratic elements of the American Gothic by surveying the conflicted imaginaries of the genre's mainstays, including Charles Brockden Brown, George Lippard, Shirley Jackson, and Stephen King.
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Cambridge University Press Democracy and the American Gothic
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Mass-Market Fiction and the Crisis of American Liberalism, 1972–2017
Book SynopsisMass-Market Fiction and the Crisis of American Liberalism, 1972–2017 tracks the transformation of liberal thought in the contemporary United States through the unique lens of the popular paperback. The book focuses on cultural shifts as they appear in works written by some of the most widely-read authors of the last fifty years: the idea of love within a New Economy (Danielle Steel), the role of government in scientific inquiry (Michael Crichton), entangled political alliances and legacies in the aftermath of the 1960s (Tom Clancy), the restructured corporation (John Grisham), and the blurred line between state and personal empowerment (Dean Koontz). To address the current crisis, this book examines how the changed character of American liberalism has been rendered legible for a mass audience.Table of Contents1. Introduction: Popular Paperbacks and the Transformation of American Liberalism Part I. The Neoliberal Turn 2. The Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic of Mass-Market Fiction 3. Danielle Steel and New Home Economics 4. Michael Crichton and the Heritage of Invention Part II: Conjunctures 5. Tom Clancy and the Liberal Family Tree 6. John Grisham and the New Economy Thriller 7. Dean Koontz and the Problem with Power
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University of Wales Press Stephen King and American Politics
Book SynopsisFrom The Long Walk to The Outsider, Stephen King's output reflects the major political concerns of the previous fifty years. This book, Stephen King and American Politics, is the first sustained study of the complex ways in which King's texts speak to their unique political moments. By exploring this aspect of the author's popular works, readers might better understand the numerous crises that Americans currently face in a book that surveys King's corpus to address a wide range of issues - including the spread of neoliberalism, the Bush-Cheney doctrine, and the chaos of the populist present. Although his fiction outwardly declares itself to be anti-political - thus reflecting a widespread shift away from democracy in the aftermath of the 1960s - political energies persist just beneath the surface. Given the possibility of a political resurgence that haunts so many of his page-turners, Stephen King produces horror and hope in equal measure.Trade Review“Stephen King and American Politics provides the key for unlocking the political importance of Stephen King’s fiction. Through Michael Blouin’s perceptive analysis, this ostensibly apolitical fiction becomes the site for a completely unforeseen form of fictional politics that embraces the impossibility of its aims. This groundbreaking new book shows the possibility for reconceiving the politics of aesthetics through attention to how King’s narratives deploy the variegations of desire.” -- Todd McGowan, University of Vermont, author of Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets“At a time when political partisanship has America in lockdown, Blouin argues the persistence of ambivalence in American culture—he conjures our usual demons and shows us how they refuse to be exorcised. This book is required reading not just for Stephen King’s politics, but for the contemporary Gothic altogether.” -- Steven Bruhm, Western University“King studies has evolved into a field that grows ever more populated and sophisticated because of work by young scholars such as Blouin, who reminds us that over five decades Stephen King has become so much more than America’s horrormeister. With this book, Blouin enters into the highest echelon of King’s critical interpreters.” -- Tony Magistrale, University of VermontTable of Contents1. Prelude: The (Im)possible Politics of Stephen King's Fiction 2. The Bachman Books and America's Death Drive 3. King's Cars and the Grinding Gears of Post-Fordism 4. Firestarter; Or, the Smelting of a Neoliberal Subject 5. IT, Individualism, and the Idea of Community 6. Interlude: The Langoliers and the Political Event 7. Human Capital in Rose Madder 8. Under the Dome and the Deteriorating Demos 9. The Outsider and the Shifting Shapes of Trumpism 10. Postlude: Revolutions of The Stand
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Lexington Books Violence in the Films of Stephen King
Book SynopsisIn Violence in the Films of Stephen King, contributors analyze the theme of violence in the film adaptations of Stephen King’s work—ranging from the earliest films in the King canon to his most recent iterations—through a variety of lenses. Investigating the diverse and varying roles that violence continues to play as both the level of violence and the gendered depictions of violence have evolved, many of the contributors come to the conclusion that King’s films have grown more violent over time. This book also examines the fine line between necessary violence and sensationalist violence, discussing the complexity of determining what constitutes violence with a narrative and ethical significance versus violence intended solely to titillate, repulse, or otherwise draw an emotional reaction from viewers. Scholars of film studies, horror studies, literary studies, and gender studies will find this book particularly useful. Trade ReviewOne of the finest collections of essays on Stephen King's films ever published. Highly readable, immensely informative, and wonderfully perceptive. The editors have assembled a stellar selection of articles from the finest King scholars. If you enjoy Stephen King, then I would strongly suggest you make room on your bookshelf for this volume. It is indispensable. -- Gary Hoppenstand, Michigan State UniversityViolence in the Films of Stephen King is not just a timely study, but a necessary one. Poised at the intersection of aesthetics and ethics, the volume's chapters ask the hard questions of King adaptations: when is violence necessary? When is it simply gratuitous? Under what conditions (if any) is violence OK? And what pleasures do viewers derive from it? This significant volume will be essential reading not just for those interested in King, but also for those preoccupied with larger issues of violence and justice, and their representation on screen. -- Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, Central Michigan UniversityTable of ContentsIntroductionMichael J. Blouin and Tony Magistrale1. Stephen King’s Carrie: Victim No More?Sarah E. Turner 2. An American Hyde: Stephen King’s A Good MarriageTony Magistrale3. The Mad Lady: Racial and Sexual Violence in Mick Garris’s Bag of BonesPhoenix Crockett and Stephen Indrisano4. Cujo, the Black Man, and the Story of Patty HearstSarah Nilsen5. King of Pain: Exposing the Raw, “Unpleasant Truth” of Stephen King’s Use of Extreme Violence in Doctor Sleep Mary Findley6. Violence Persists: Muschietti’s IT Films and a Sadistic Status QuoMichael J. Blouin7. “Cut You Up into Little Pieces”: Ghosts & Violence in Kubrick’s The ShiningDanel Olson8. Tempered Violence in Frank Darabont’s Adaptations of Stephen King: The Shawshank Redemption and The Green MileMaura Grady9. Hiding in Plain Sight: Watching and the Unconscious in Stephen King’s Mr. Mercedes Trilogy on Page and ScreenBrian Kent10. Political Allegory and the Plague of Violence in the Television Adaptation of The OutsiderPhilip L. Simpson11. The Invasive Gaze: Surveillance Camera Shots in Flanagan's Doctor Sleep and Price's The OutsiderMatthew Muller12. “Murder is Damnation, But Murder is Also Work”: Violence, Patriarchy, and the Work Ethic in 1922Jason Clemence13. Lost in the Supermarket: When “The Mist” Fogs Our Mind . . . When Basic Emotions Transform into Monstrous ActsAlexandra Reuber14. Stephen King’s Big Driver: A Utopian Road to JusticePatrick McAleerAbout the Contributors
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Lexington Books Violence in the Films of Stephen King
Book SynopsisIn Violence in the Films of Stephen King, contributors analyze the theme of violence in the film adaptations of Stephen King’s work—ranging from the earliest films in the King canon to his most recent iterations—through a variety of lenses. Investigating the diverse and varying roles that violence continues to play as both the level of violence and the gendered depictions of violence have evolved, many of the contributors come to the conclusion that King’s films have grown more violent over time. This book also examines the fine line between necessary violence and sensationalist violence, discussing the complexity of determining what constitutes violence with a narrative and ethical significance versus violence intended solely to titillate, repulse, or otherwise draw an emotional reaction from viewers. Scholars of film studies, horror studies, literary studies, and gender studies will find this book particularly useful. Trade ReviewWhatever one thinks about Stephen King as a writer, he undeniably has his finger on the pulse of the times. His works have increasingly reflected the burgeoning violence of the past half century in the US; so, consequently, have the 50-some films made from those works. As the essays in this book point out, the violence in King's books and films made from them has grown more graphic and is more often perpetrated against women and children. In some films, the violence is so graphic that even written descriptions made this reader queasy. Still, these essays, part sociology, part film analysis, are a valuable and necessary investigation into the Stephen King phenomenon. This reviewer particularly liked Mary Findley’s "King of Pain," in which she looks at Doctor Sleep (both book and film) and Matthew Muller’s "The Invasive Gaze," which offers meticulous observation of King's use of surveillance cameras in The Outsider. In "Lost in the Supermarket," Alexandra Reuber studies The Mist, making clear the uncanny way in which King anticipated the divisive effects of the pandemic—a microcosm of the US in a supermarket. This reviewer considers these three essays the standouts, but all the essays in the collection are well done. Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty; general readers. * Choice Reviews *One of the finest collections of essays on Stephen King's films ever published. Highly readable, immensely informative, and wonderfully perceptive. The editors have assembled a stellar selection of articles from the finest King scholars. If you enjoy Stephen King, then I would strongly suggest you make room on your bookshelf for this volume. It is indispensable. -- Gary Hoppenstand, Michigan State UniversityViolence in the Films of Stephen King is not just a timely study, but a necessary one. Poised at the intersection of aesthetics and ethics, the volume's chapters ask the hard questions of King adaptations: when is violence necessary? When is it simply gratuitous? Under what conditions (if any) is violence OK? And what pleasures do viewers derive from it? This significant volume will be essential reading not just for those interested in King, but also for those preoccupied with larger issues of violence and justice, and their representation on screen. -- Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, Central Michigan UniversityIn Danse Macabre, Stephen King wrote, ‘I recognize terror as the finest emotion...and so I will try to terrorize the reader.’ In this reflective and illuminating collection of essays, fourteen scholars shed light on the mutating nature of fear, both internal and external, from which none of us are immune. Seen through the multiple lens of King’s film adaptations, the writers assay the very nature of fear in all its terrifying dimensions. -- George Beahm, Author of The Stephen King CompanionTable of ContentsIntroductionMichael J. Blouin and Tony Magistrale1. Stephen King’s Carrie: Victim No More?Sarah E. Turner 2. An American Hyde: Stephen King’s A Good MarriageTony Magistrale3. The Mad Lady: Racial and Sexual Violence in Mick Garris’s Bag of BonesPhoenix Crockett and Stephen Indrisano4. Cujo, the Black Man, and the Story of Patty HearstSarah Nilsen5. King of Pain: Exposing the Raw, “Unpleasant Truth” of Stephen King’s Use of Extreme Violence in Doctor Sleep Mary Findley6. Violence Persists: Muschietti’s IT Films and a Sadistic Status QuoMichael J. Blouin7. “Cut You Up into Little Pieces”: Ghosts & Violence in Kubrick’s The ShiningDanel Olson8. Tempered Violence in Frank Darabont’s Adaptations of Stephen King: The Shawshank Redemption and The Green MileMaura Grady9. Hiding in Plain Sight: Watching and the Unconscious in Stephen King’s Mr. Mercedes Trilogy on Page and ScreenBrian Kent10. Political Allegory and the Plague of Violence in the Television Adaptation of The OutsiderPhilip L. Simpson11. The Invasive Gaze: Surveillance Camera Shots in Flanagan's Doctor Sleep and Price's The OutsiderMatthew Muller12. “Murder is Damnation, But Murder is Also Work”: Violence, Patriarchy, and the Work Ethic in 1922Jason Clemence13. Lost in the Supermarket: When “The Mist” Fogs Our Mind . . . When Basic Emotions Transform into Monstrous ActsAlexandra Reuber14. Stephen King’s Big Driver: A Utopian Road to JusticePatrick McAleerAbout the Contributors
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