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5 reviews
Tony Magistrale

Palgrave Macmillan, 2003

good read
At first glance I thought this might be tiresome because it is literary/cinema criticism and I was immediately transported back to a college English class. Surprise, I couldn't put it down! Stephen King is a genius. Tony Magistrael has made a career of studying horror with an emphasis on Stephen King's writings and film adaptations of his work. You can't help but appreciate King's ...

A Dark Night's Dreaming: Contemporary American Horror Fiction (Understanding Contemporary American Literature)

1 review

University of South Carolina Press, 1996

Uneven quality, but two of the chapters are excellent.
In the past few years there seems to have been an explosion of commentary on horror fiction, but the quality of that commentary has been uneven. Some works seem more interested in "justifying" horror as a legitmate genre--they do more cheerleading and gushing than really insightful writing. I find much commentary on King to fall into this category (particularly, Winter's THE ART OF DARKNESS ...

Poe's Children: Connections between Tales of Terror and Detection
Tony Magistrale, Sidney Poger

Peter Lang Publishing, 1999

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. This book also examines women writers strongly influenced by Poe, such as Joyce Carol Oates, Sara Paretsky, and Sue Grafton. The last chapter of the ...

The Shining Reader (Starmont Studies in Literary Criticism, 30)

3 reviews
Tony Magistrale

Borgo Pr, 1989

Shines on
Although many would pick Stanley Kubrich's film (1980)over the 4hr. 20min. film, I think wouldn't. I did enjoy Stanley's yet i feel that it lacked the "pizazz" that the book and the miniseries truly held. The book was wonderful in my opinion mostly because it held some truth and horror that most books often lack. The character Jack Torrance was made to be similiar to Stephen King but different ...

The Dark Descent: Essays Defining Stephen King's Horrorscape (Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction ...

Greenwood Press, 1992

Surely one of America's most popular novelists, Stephen King has only recently begun to receive serious attention from scholars and literary critics. The Dark Descent assembles fifteen illuminating original essays that consider King from a variety of intellectual orientations, addressing the major novels and central thematic concerns that represent King's contributions to American letters and elevating King scholarship to a new level of critical ...

Abject Terrors: Surveying the Modern And Postmodern Horror Film
Tony Magistrale

Peter Lang Publishing, 2005

Abject Terrors is an expansive study of the most significant films from the prolific horror genre—from its origins in the 1920s and 1930s, to its contemporary representations. This survey brings together close analyses of individual motion pictures, demonstrating the interconnections among these filmic texts and their contribution to defining quintessential aspects of the modern and postmodern horror film.

Writing Across Culture: An Introduction to Study Abroad and the Writing Process
Kenneth Wagner, Tony Magistrale

Peter Lang Publishing, 2000

This book is about culture shock and the writing process. For a student, the relationship between writing and the challenge of living in a foreign culture may not be obvious. The purpose of Writing Across Culture is to aid the student in documenting and analyzing the connection. If culture can be broadly defined as the unwritten rules of every-day life, one effective method for learning these rules is to write about them as they are ...

The Films of Stephen King: From Carrie to Secret Window
Tony Magistrale

Palgrave Macmillan, 2008

Over seventy-five films have been made based either on Stephen King narratives or screen/teleplay scripts that King himself authored-yet this body of work has received very little scholarly attention. 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 ...

Stephen King - Second Decade: 'Danse Macabre' to 'The Dark Half' (United States Authors Series)
Tony Magistrale

Twayne Publishers, 1992

Twayne's United States Authors Series presents concise critical introductions to great writers and their works. Devoted to critical interpretation and discussion of an author's work, each study takes account of major literary trends and important scholarly contributions and provides new critical insights with an original point of view. An Authors Series volume addresses readers ranging from advanced high school students to university ...

Student Companion to Edgar Allan Poe: (Student Companions to Classic Writers)
Tony Magistrale

Greenwood Press, 2001

The contributions of Edgar Allan Poe have withstood the test of time; his best poems and fiction are more popular and carry greater significance now than they did during his own era. This highly readable introduction to the life, times, and major works of Poe offers fresh interpretations of timeless masterpieces like "The Raven" and "The Purloined Letter." Carefully considering important thematic elements as well as genre, this book organizes ...

Landscape of Fear: Stephen King's American Gothic
Tony Magistrale

Popular Press 1, 1988

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 ...

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