The Suspense of Horror and the Horror of Suspense (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781527518018)

This book presents a detailed academic study of suspense building in Stephen Kingâ (TM)s horror novels The Shining and Carrie and their respective film adaptations. Two film versions of each book are taken into consideration â " one released immediately after the novel publication and one that appeared decades later. After providing a general idea of what suspense as a phenomenon related to fiction is, the study establishes some repeated plot-bound suspense motifs and episodes in the literary works, and traces their development in the films in order to demonstrate the similarities and differences in the techniques of achieving suspense in literature and in cinema. The model detailed here can also be used for individual or comparative suspense analysis of other literary or cinematic works.

Author: Maria Anastasova
ISBN-10: 1527518019
ISBN-13: 9781527518018
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Language: English
Published: 10/15/2018
Pages: 229
Format: Hardcover