Authors: Laurent Bourdier

Description: Retrace le parcours littéraire de Stephen King : la construction de l'écrivain (l'enfance, l'adolescence, l'engagement politique ...) ; le fantastiqueur du réel (la continuité de l'oeuvre, les thèmes récurrents ...) ; la valeur et la portée de l'oeuvre. Avec une bibliographie commentée et critique de ses oeuvres.

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Authors: Maria Anastasova

Description: This book presents a detailed academic study of suspense building in Stephen King’s horror novels The Shining and Carrie and their respective film adaptations. Two film versions of each book are taken into consideration – one released immediately after the novel publication and one that appeared decades later. After providing a general idea of what suspense as a phenomenon related to fiction is, the study establishes some repeated plot-bound suspense motifs and episodes in the literary works, and traces their development in the films in order to demonstrate the similarities and differences in the techniques of achieving suspense in literature and in cinema. The model detailed here can also be used for individual or comparative suspense analysis of other literary or cinematic works.

Langue: en

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Categories: Performing Arts

Authors: Lynda Myles ,Michael Pye

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Langue: fr

Publisher: L'AGE D'HOMME

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Authors: LEE. GAMBIN

Description: The history of Stephen King's 1976 Carrie film.

Langue: en

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Categories: Performing Arts

Authors: Michel Dobransky

Description: Cet ouvrage est une réédition numérique d’un livre paru au XXe siècle, désormais indisponible dans son format d’origine.

Langue: fr

Publisher: FeniXX

Categories: Art

Authors: Salvador Jiménez Murguía ,Erica Joan Dymond ,Kristina Fennelly

Description: The treatment—and mistreatment—of women throughout history continues to be a necessary topic of discussion, in order for progress to be made and equality to be achieved. While current articles and books expose troubling truths of the gender divide, modern cinema continues to provide problematic depictions of such behavior—with a few heartening exceptions. The Encyclopedia of Sexism in American Films closely examines the many, pervasive forms of sexism in contemporary productions—from clueless comedies to superhero blockbusters. In more than 130 entries, this volume explores a number of cinematic grievances including: the objectification of women’s bodies the limited character types available for female performersthe lack of sexual diversity on the screen the limited range of desirable traits for female performers the use of gratuitous sexthe narrow focus on heteronormative depictions of courtship and romance The films discussed here include As Good as It Gets (1999), Beauty and The Beast (2017), The Devil Wears Prada (2006), Do the Right Thing (1989), Easy A (2010), The Forty-Year-Old Virgin (2005), Hidden Figures (2016), Lost in Translation (2003), Mulholland Drive (2001), Showgirls (1995), The Silence of the Lambs (1991), Star Wars (1977), Thelma & Louise (1991), Tootsie (1982), The Witches of Eastwick (1987), and 9 to 5 (1980). By digging deeply into more insidious forms of sexual/gender discrimination, this book illuminates one more aspect of women’s lives that deserves to be understood. Offering insights and analysis from more than fifty contributors, The Encyclopedia of Sexism in American Films will appeal to scholars of cinema, gender studies, women’s studies, and cultural history.

Langue: en

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Categories: Performing Arts

Authors: John Kenneth Muir

Description: Horror Films FAQ explores a century of ghoulish and grand horror cinema, gazing at the different characters, situations, settings, and themes featured in the horror film, from final girls, monstrous bogeymen, giant monsters and vampires to the recent torture porn and found footage formats. The book remembers the J-Horror remake trend of the 2000s, and examines the oft-repeated slasher format popularized by John Carpenter's Halloween (1978) and Friday the 13th (1980). After an introduction positioning the horror film as an important and moral voice in the national dialogue, the book explores the history of horror decade by decade, remembering the women's liberation horrors of the 1970s, the rubber reality films of the late 1980s, the serial killers of the 1990s, and the xenophobic terrors of the 9/11 age. Horror Films FAQ also asks what it means when animals attack in such films as The Birds (1963) or Jaws (1975), and considers the moral underpinnings of rape-and-revenge movies, such as I Spit on Your Grave (1978) and Irreversible (2002). The book features numerous photographs from the author's extensive personal archive, and also catalogs the genre's most prominent directors.

Langue: en

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Categories: Performing Arts

Authors: Neil Mitchell

Description: Brian De Palma's adaptation of Stephen King's debut novel, 'Carrie' (1976), is one of the defining films of 1970s 'New Hollywood' style and a horror classic. The story of a teenage social outcast who discovers she possesses latent psychic powers that allow her to deliver retribution to her peers, teachers, and abusive mother, Carrie was an enormous commercial and critical success and is still one of the finest screen adaptations of a King novel. This book not only breaks the film down into its formal components - its themes, stylistic tropes, technical approaches, uses of colour and sound, dialogue, and visual symbolism - but also considers a multitude of other factors contributing to the work's classic status.

Langue: en

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Categories: Carrie (Motion picture : 1976)

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Langue: fr

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Categories: Motion pictures

Authors: Kim R. Holston ,Tom Winchester

Description: Science fiction, fantasy and horror movies have spawned more sequels and remakes than any other film genre. Following Volume I, which covered 400 films made 1931-1995, Volume II analyzes 334 releases from 1996 through 2016. The traditional cinematic monsters are represented--Dracula, Frankenstein, the Wolf Man, a new Mummy. A new wave of popular series inspired by comics and video games, as well as The Lord of the Rings trilogy, could never have been credibly produced without the advances in special effects technology. Audiences follow the exploits of superheroes like Captain America, Iron Man, Spider-Man and Thor, and such heroines as the vampire Selene, zombie killer Alice, dystopian rebels Katniss Everdeen and Imperator Furiosa, and Soviet spy turned American agent Black Widow. The continuing depredations of Jason Voorhees, Freddy Krueger and Michael Myers are described. Pre-1996 movies that have since been remade are included. Entries features cast and credits, detailed synopsis, critics' reviews, and original analysis.

Langue: en

Publisher: McFarland

Categories: Performing Arts

Authors: Stephen King

Description: Carrie White, dix-sept ans, solitaire, timide et pas vraiment jolie, vit un calvaire : elle est victime du fanatisme religieux de sa mère et des moqueries incessantes de ses camarades de classe. Sans compter ce don, cet étrange pouvoir de déplacer les objets à distance, bien qu’elle le maîtrise encore avec difficulté... Un jour, cependant, la chance paraît lui sourire. Tommy Ross, le seul garçon qui semble la comprendre et l’aimer, l’invite au bal de printemps de l’école. Une marque d’attention qu’elle n’aurait jamais espérée, et peut-être même le signe d’un renouveau ! Traduit de l’anglais (États-Unis) par Jean Esch.

Langue: fr

Publisher: Le Livre de Poche

Categories: Fiction

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Langue: fr

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Categories: Bibliography

Authors: Bernice M. Murphy

Description: Shirley Jackson was one of America's most prominent female writers of the 1950s. Between 1948 and 1965 she published six novels, one best-selling story collection, two popular volumes of her family chronicles and many stories, which ranged from fairly conventional tales for the women's magazine market to the ambiguous, allusive, delicately sinister and more obviously literary stories that were closest to Jackson's heart and destined to end up in the more highbrow end of the market. Most critical discussions of Jackson tend to focus on "The Lottery" and The Haunting of Hill House. An author of such accomplishment--and one so fully engaged with the pressures and preoccupations of postwar America--merits fuller discussion. To that end, this collection of essays widens the scope of Jackson scholarship with new writing on such works as The Road through the Wall and We Have Always Lived in the Castle, and topics ranging from Jackson's domestic fiction to ethics, cosmology, and eschatology. The book also makes newly available some of the most significant Jackson scholarship published in the last two decades.

Langue: en

Publisher: McFarland

Categories: Literary Criticism

Authors: Alain Pozzuoli ,Jean-Pierre Krémer

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Langue: fr

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Categories: Fantastic, The

Authors: Philippe Ross

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Langue: fr

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Categories: Horror films

Authors: Michael Burgess ,Lisa R. Bartle

Description: An annotated list of reference works in the fields of science fiction, fantasy, and horror fiction.

Langue: en

Publisher: Libraries Unlimited

Categories: Fiction

Authors: R.R. Bowker Company. Department of Bibliography ,R.R. Bowker Company. Publications Systems Department

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Langue: en

Publisher: New York : Bowker

Categories: Reference

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Langue: fr

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Categories: France

Authors: Anthony Glinoer

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Langue: fr

Publisher: Presses Universitaires de France - PUF

Categories: Fantasy fiction, French

Authors: Verena Wright

Description: In Maid in God’s Image, Verena Wright explores the feminine dimension through a range of texts in film, short stories, novels and gospel stories. Examining the fears that lie beneath the repression of female experience, she uncovers a positive appraisal of women as agents of change and disruption and seeks out the links between the unruly woman and the prophetic voice of Christianity.

Langue: en

Publisher: Darton Longman and Todd

Categories: Religion