Stephen King on the Small Screen PSYCHOLOGY / Education

Stephen King on the Small Screen PSYCHOLOGY / EducationThis book is the first written by a film specialist to consider Stephen Kings television work in its own right, and rejects previous attempts to make the films and books fit rigid thematic categories. Browning examines what makes a written or visual text successful at evoking fear on a case by case basis, in a highly readable and engaging way. He also considers the relationship between the big and small screen. Why, for instance, are some TV versions

A wide-ranging and carefully constructed account

and Indigenous authors

A critical study of John Burton’s work which outlines an alternative framework for the study of international conflict

not least the legal

Captain Philip Beaver’s journal

and the relevance of gender to the process of textual retrieval and preservation

By analyzing Dickens’ illustrated novels through a frame of ontologically haunted concepts like the Freudian uncanny

An invaluable compendium of writing on the Middle East including extracts from canonical and less well known travellers’ works

Marie Duval: maverick Victorian cartoonist offers the first critical appraisal of the work of Marie Duval 1847–1890)

conspiracy theories and

This book presents a new conceptual model for understanding the role of the media in the construction of public knowledge

which will be discussed in a number of historical