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Stephen King on the Big Screen
Intellect 2009; US$ 20.00From 1976 to the present day, there have been over 45 films adapted from the spine-tingling works of Stephen King. In Stephen King on the Big Screen, Mark Browning addresses the question of why some of the film adaptations of the worlds best-selling author are much more successful than others.By focussing on the theoretical aspect of genre, Browning... more...
David Fincher
ABC-CLIO 2010; US$ 45.00David Fincher is one of the most exciting filmmakers working in Hollywood today. He has produced a string of groundbreaking films that have achieved both critical and commercial success, while constantly challenging audiences to rethink their expectations of generic boundaries. David Fincher: Films That Scar is the first truly analytical work on the... more...
Wes Anderson
ABC-CLIO 2011; US$ 45.00Wes Anderson has created a body of work marking him as one of contemporary cinema's most exciting talents, writing and directing a string of quirky comedies featuring the types of narratives largely ignored by Hollywood. It is high time for a definitive account of Anderson's creative output, one that addresses the praiseÑand the equally loud criticismÑhe... more...
Stephen King on the Small Screen
Intellect 2011; US$ 20.00In 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 authors work in television, examining what it is about Kings fiction that makes it particularly suitable for the small screen.By focusing on this body of work, from ratings successes The Stand... more...
Danny Boyle - Lust for Life
Andrews UK 2011; US$ 15.99Danny Boyle is one of contemporary filmmakings most exciting talents. Since the early 1990s he has steadily created a body of work that crosses genres and defies easy categorisation, from black humour (Shallow Grave), gritty realism (Trainspotting), screwball comedy (A Life Less Ordinary), cult adaptations (The Beach), and horror (28 Days Later),... more...
George Clooney
ABC-CLIO 2012; US$ 48.00This book traces the evolution of George Clooney's successful career, from his humble start as a television heartthrob to his current position as one of the most powerful figures in film making today. more...
Roughing It
University of California Press 2011; US$ 24.95Mark Twain's humorous account of his six years in Nevada, San Francisco, and the Sandwich Islands is a patchwork of personal anecdotes and tall tales, many of them told in the "vigorous new vernacular" of the West. Selling seventy five thousand copies within a year of its publication in 1872, Roughing It was greeted as a work of "wild, preposterous... more...
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