Stephen King on the small screen / / Mark Browning

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910810308403321
• Autore: Browning Mark <1966->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Bristol, UK ; ; Chicago, : Intellect, 2011
• ISBN: 1-283-16273-3; 9786613162731; 1-84150-455-6
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (194 p.)
• Disciplina: 791.456164; 813/.54
• Soggetti: American fiction
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Cover; Preliminary Pages; Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1: Vampires; Chapter 2: Stalk & Slash?; Chapter 3: Monsters vs Aliens; Chapter 4: Sometimes They Come Back; Chapter 5: Apocalypse Now; Chapter 6: Tales of the Unexpected; Conclusion; References; Back Cover
• Sommario/riassunto: In this follow up to Stephen King on the Big Screen (2009) Mark Browning turns his critical eye upon the much-neglected subject of the best-selling author's work in television, examining what it is about King's fiction that makes it particularly suitable for the small screen.By focusing on this body of work, from ratings successes The Stand and The Night Flier to lesser- known TV films Storm of the Century (1999), Rose Red (2002), Kingdom Hospital (2003) and the 2004 remake of Salem's Lot, Browning is able to articulate how these adaptations work and, in turn, suggest new ways of viewing them.