These chapters are bookended by a particularly candid new interview with King and an equally frank chapter on the strengths and weaknesses of King's made-for-television movies. For the most part, Magistrale eschews cinematic theory and technical miscellany instead, he offers an exceptionally perceptive literary overview of the way Hollywood has interpreted - and misinterpreted - King's fiction.Īfter a preface that investigates and refutes the notion that King's films are not worthy of serious consideration, Magistrale divides his book into chapters analyzing a selection of those films that center on children, on females, on fathers, on heroes, and on technology.
In this study, he uses that style to probe King's most important movies and miniseries for their significance as literary parables that serve as social metaphors. As always, Magistrale writes in an accessible but contemplative manner, one that allows both devotees and academics to grasp his work. Like others before him, Magistrale examines a selection of movies and miniseries adapted from King's fiction or created by King himself, but two factors make Hollywood's Stephen King different from its predecessors: its stylistic lucidity and its literary focus. Now, in Hollywood's Stephen King, Magistrale has written an indispensable addition to the field. "As the most perceptive of the myriad of critics who have studied Stephen King's canon over the last several decades, Tony Magistrale has a just claim to the title of premier King scholar in America. ".a useful elucidation of King's work through the skewed lens of Hollywood." - Publishers Weekly
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