Table of Contents

'Mind Over Matter: Telekinesis' - Mark Browning 'Tales from the Darkside: The Portmanteau film' - Mark Browning 'Sometimes Dead is Better: The Body Under the Sheet' - Mark Browning 'Boys to Men: Rites-of-Passage' - Mark Browning 'The Rise of the Machines: 1950s Science-Fiction B-Movie' - Mark Browning 'The Great Escape: Prison Drama' - Mark Browning 'Books of Blood: The Writer' - Mark Browning 'The Terror of Everyday Life and Final Girls' - Mark Browning

About the Author

Mark Browning currently lives and works as a teacher and freelance writer in Germany. He was invited by Mr Cronenberg to contribute to an exhibition of his work at the Rome Film Festival in October 2008.

Reviews

'Stephen King was among the first generation of horror writers to be overtly influenced by cinematic horror as well as literary, so it's hardly surprising that he is the most widely adapted horror novelist there is. These adaptations are, as Mark Browning observes in this excellent work, very hit-and-miss. Indeed, a great plus of this book is its blatant non-fanboyism. It is a meticulously critical work; scholarly but not pretentious, giving both praise and scorn where it's due, and acknowledging the greatnesses and flaws of the films as adaptations, suggesting some interesting viewing strategies along the way. Films are divided into theme, e.g. prison movies, rite of passage, telekinesis etc., and analysed from various intelligent positions. An excellent study of why adaptations work/fail, and for any King fan it's definitive.' - Andrew McQuade, Gorezone 'Browning is very conversant with film and its associated genres [...] Browning's purpose is praiseworthy because it does fill in an obvious gap in the research done on King and his literary texts and their filmic adaptations [...] the author is able to make connections [...] with a variety of texts and films.' - Edmund P. Cueva, Scope: An Online Journal of Film and Television Studies