Films of Stephen King: From "Carrie" to "Secret Window", The

Contributors focus on the most intriguing aspects of Stephen King's movies: race, gender, and technology, and draw conclusions on their socio-political relevance.This book is an original evaluation of a renowned canon. It advances the published scholarship on major directors frequently taught on film studies course, such as Kubrick, Croeneberg, and Darabont, as well as proliferating scholarship on King himself."The Films of Stephen King" is the first collection of essays assembled on the cinematic adaptations of Stephen King. The individual chapters, written by cinema, television, and cultural studies scholars, examine the most important films from the King canon, from "Carrie" to "The Shining" to "The Shawshank Redemption".