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Books by Tony Magistrale
  | | Abject Terrors(1st Edition) Surveying the Modern and Postmodern Horror Film by Tony Magistrale, Magistrale Anthony Paperback, 214 Pages, Published 2005 by Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers ISBN-13: 978-0-8204-7056-6, ISBN: 0-8204-7056-2 "If films such as Vertigo and Psycho speak to us of the tragic flaws associated with being a monstrous human, The Day the Earth Stood Still and the Alien saga manage to discuss similar concerns from thousands of miles away. In other words, while the horror film is capable of telescoping itself into scenarios that are as radically disparate as an American suburban family battling evil forces inside their television and a spaceship co ..." |
 | | Landscape of Fear(Updated) Stephen King's American Gothic by Tony Magistrale, Anthony S. Magistrale Paperback, 140 Pages, Published 1988 by Popular Press 3 ISBN-13: 978-0-87972-405-4, ISBN: 0-87972-405-6 " One of the very first books to take Stephen King seriously, "Landscape of Fear" (originally published in 1988) reveals the source of King's horror in the sociopolitical anxieties of the post-Vietnam, post-Watergate era. In this groundbreaking study, Tony Magistrale shows how King's fiction transcends the escapism typical of its genre to tap into our deepest cultural fears: "that the government we have installed through the democratic p ..." |
 | | Stephen King and American History (Paperback) by Tony Magistrale, Michael J. Blouin Paperback, 170 Pages, Published 2020 by Taylor And Francis 2020-08-06, London ISBN-13: 978-0-367-49330-1, ISBN: 0-367-49330-6 "This book surveys the labyrinthine relationship between Stephen King and American history." |
 | | The Shawshank Experience(1st Edition) Tracking the History of the World’s Favorite Movie by Maura Grady, Tony Magistrale Paperback, 235 Pages, Published 2018 by Palgrave Macmillan ISBN-13: 978-1-349-95350-9, ISBN: 1-349-95350-4 "This book features an in-depth analysis of the world’s most popular movie, The Shawshank Redemption, delving into issues such as: the significance of race in the film, its cinematic debt to earlier genres, the gothic influences at work in the movie, and the representation of Andy’s poster art as cross-gendered signifiers. In addition to exploring the film and novella from which it was adapted, this book also traces the history of the Oh ..." |
 | | Dialogues Among Lost Tourists by Tony Magistrale Paperback, 86 Pages, Published 2017 by Finishing Line Press ISBN-13: 978-1-63534-321-2, ISBN: 1-63534-321-6 "Dialogues Among Lost Tourists centers on journeys—literal and metaphorical voyages—to foreign places. Divided into three parts, this collection of dialogues mediates between the living and the dead, past and present, real and imaginary. Readers are invited to travel alongside the poet to places where time is briefly suspended long enough to access something of what every tourist discovers in the mystery, humor, sadness, and magic of a u ..." |
 | | Entanglements by Tony Magistrale Paperback, 116 Pages, Published 2013 by Fomite ISBN-13: 978-1-937677-43-5, ISBN: 1-937677-43-5 "ENTANGLEMENTS is Tony Magistrale's third collection of poetry. The book contains poetry written in both Europe and the United States. Many of the poems reflect a certain awareness of Vermont as seasonal place and essence. Additionally, some of the poems bear black and white illustrations created by Michael Strauss, well-known Vermont landscape painter." |
 | | Student Companion to Edgar Allan Poe(1st Edition) (Student Companions to Classic Writers) by Tony Magistrale Hardcover, 160 Pages, Published 2001 by Greenwood ISBN-13: 978-0-313-30992-2, ISBN: 0-313-30992-2 "The contributions of Edgar Allan Poe have withstood the test of time; his best poems and fiction are more popular and carry greater significance now than they did during his own era. This highly readable introduction to the life, times, and major works of Poe offers fresh interpretations of timeless masterpieces like The Raven and The Purloined Letter. Carefully considering important thematic elements as well as genre, this book organiz ..." |
 | | Writing Across Culture(5th Edition) An Introduction to Study Abroad and the Writing Process by Kenneth S. Wagner, Tony Magistrale, Anthony S. Magistrale Paperback, 155 Pages, Published 2000 by Peter Lang Publishing ISBN-13: 978-0-8204-1923-7, ISBN: 0-8204-1923-0 "This book is about culture shock and the writing process. For a student, the relationship between writing and the challenge of living in a foreign culture may not be obvious. The purpose of Writing Across Culture is to aid the student in documenting and analyzing the connection. If culture can be broadly defined as the unwritten rules of every-day life, one effective method for learning these rules is to write about them as they ar ..." |
 | | Stephen King America's Storyteller by Tony Magistrale Hardcover, 181 Pages, Published 2009 by Praeger ISBN-13: 978-0-313-35228-7, ISBN: 0-313-35228-3 "This analysis of the work of Stephen King explores the distinctly American fears and foibles that King has celebrated, condemned, and generally examined in the course of his wildly successful career.Stephen King: America's Storyteller explores the particular American-ness of Stephen King's work. It is the first major examination to follow this defining theme through King's 40-year career, from his earliest writings to his most recent no ..." |
 | | Hollywood's Stephen King(1st Edition) by Tony Magistrale Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2003 by Palgrave Macmillan ISBN-13: 978-0-312-29321-5, ISBN: 0-312-29321-6 "For the past three decades, Hollywood has faithfully adapted much of Stephen King's fiction into film. Of the many major films that have been made, not one has lost money. Part of this may be explained in terms of King's own popularity in American culture; he has been, after all, a best-selling writer since the late 1970s. But more interesting is what this cinematic fascination reveals about postmodern American culture. In the first ov ..." |
 | | Approaches to Teaching Poe's Prose and Poetry(1st Edition) (Approaches to Teaching World Literature) by Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, Tony Magistrale Hardcover, 280 Pages, Published 2008 by The Modern Language Association Of America ISBN-13: 978-1-60329-011-1, ISBN: 1-60329-011-7 "Edgar Allan Poe is a popular author, and students have often read his work by the time they reach the college or university classroom. His writings have inspired film, television, and musical adaptations--sources for much of students' knowledge about Poe. Thus the challenge for teachers is to reacquaint students with Poe as a complex literary figure. This volume equips teachers with the tools necessary to meet that challenge.Part 1 iden ..." |
 | | Poe's Children(2nd Edition) Connections between Tales of Terror and Detection by Tony Magistrale, Sidney Poger Paperback, 148 Pages, Published 2001 by Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers ISBN-13: 978-0-8204-4070-5, ISBN: 0-8204-4070-1 "This study traces Edgar Allan Poe's contribution to the Gothic tradition and his invention of the detective tale. It explores the connections between these genres in British and American writers influenced by Poe, such as Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Louis Stevenson, Thomas Harris, and Stephen King. This book also examines women writers strongly influenced by Poe, such as Joyce Carol Oates, Sara Paretsky, and Sue Grafton. The last chapter ..." |
 | | The Poe Encyclopedia(Updated) by Frederick S. Frank, Tony Magistrale, Edgar Allan Poe, Anthony Magistrale Hardcover, 480 Pages, Published 1997 by Greenwood ISBN-13: 978-0-313-27768-9, ISBN: 0-313-27768-0 "?? [[ Best known as the author of imaginative short fiction, such as The Fall of the House of Usher and The Cask of Amontillado, and as the author of hauntingly sonorous poems such as The Raven, Edgar Allan Poe was a leading practitioner of the American Gothic and helped popularize the short story as a genre. This reference work assembles in dictionary format a complete and current body of information on Poe's life and work. More than 1 ..." |
 | | Stephen King - Second Decade(1st Edition) 'Danse Macabre' to 'The Dark Half' (United States Authors Series) by Tony Magistrale, Anthony S. Magistrale Hardcover, 208 Pages, Published 1992 by Twayne Publishers ISBN-13: 978-0-8057-3957-2, ISBN: 0-8057-3957-2 "Twaynes United States Authors Series presents concise critical introductions to great writers and their works.Devoted to critical interpretation and discussion of an authors work, each study takes account of major literary trends and important scholarly contributions and provides new critical insights with an original point of view. An Authors Series volumeaddresses readers ranging from advanced high school students to university profes ..." |
 | | The Films of Stephen King From Carrie to Secret Window by Tony Magistrale Hardcover, 236 Pages, Published 2008 by Palgrave Macmillan ISBN-13: 978-0-230-60131-4, ISBN: 0-230-60131-6 "Over seventy-five films have been made based either on Stephen King narratives or screen/teleplay scripts that King himself authored-yet this body of work has received very little scholarly attention. The Films of Stephen King is the first collection of essays assembled on the cinematic adaptations of Stephen King. The individual chapters, written by cinema, television, and cultural studies scholars, examine the most important films fro ..." |
 | | The Shawshank Experience(1st Edition) Tracking the History of the World's Favorite Movie by Maura Grady, Tony Magistrale Hardcover, 216 Pages, Published 2016 by Palgrave Macmillan ISBN-13: 978-1-137-53213-8, ISBN: 1-137-53213-0 "This book features an in-depth analysis of the world’s most popular movie, The Shawshank Redemption, delving into issues such as: the significance of race in the film, its cinematic debt to earlier genres, the gothic influences at work in the movie, and the representation of Andy’s poster art as cross-gendered signifiers. In addition to exploring the film and novella from which it was adapted, this book also traces the history of the Oh ..." |
 | | The Shawshank Experience Tracking the History of the World's Favorite Movie by Maura Grady, Tony Magistrale 235 Pages, Published 2016 by Springer ISBN-13: 978-1-137-53165-0, ISBN: 1-137-53165-7 "In a 2007 interview with Hans-Ake Lilja, for example, he credits King for producing a novella with “tremendous humanity to it that makes for the best kind of storytelling ... [King] writes deep, and with that story he was writing deeper than usual. All I had to do was translate it to the screen and not screw it up” (qtd. in Beahm 492). The degree of humility underscoring this statement belies the significance of Darabont's contribu ..." |
 | | The Last Soldiers of Love Literary Laundry Chapbook Series (Volume 4) by Tony Magistrale Paperback, 80 Pages, Published 2012 by Literary Laundry ISBN-13: 978-1-61418-203-0, ISBN: 1-61418-203-5 "The Last Soldiers of Love is a collection that looks both forward and backward. Its poems speak to the broad and powerful reach of love: between parents and children, artists and ideas, even sports teams and their followers. Its pages document the ever-shifting contours of love in twenty-first century America. Within this book are present the idiosyncratic desires that animate us all." |
 | | Non-Ser. Stephen King : America's Storyteller by Tony Magistrale Hardcover, Published 2009 ISBN-13: 978-0-313-35229-4, ISBN: 0-313-35229-1 |
 | | What She Says about Love by Tony Magistrale, Luigi Bonaffini Hardcover, 112 Pages, Published 2008 by Bordighera Press ISBN-13: 978-1-884419-91-1, ISBN: 1-884419-91-7 "I read the poems of What She Said About Love with a growing sense of their achievement, their expression of a particular and valuable voice. Here is a poet who understands that The act of casting shape from chaos / breeds enemies. That refers to Michaelangelo, but it stands in for the poet generally, and especially one of who has Tony Magistrale's gifts. Poetry is the enemy of bland, boring, mass-produced speech. It is language intensif ..." |
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