The Many Lives of Scary Clowns

Essays on Pennywise, Twisty, the Joker, Krusty and More

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Sous la direction de Ron Riekki

Type

Essays

Sujet

Genre > Horror

Mots Clés

horror, characters

Année d'édition

2022

Editeur

McFarland & Co

Langue

anglais

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Format

Paperback • 182 pages
6 x 9 inches (15 x 23 cm)

ISBN

978-1-4766-8091-0

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Description de l'ouvrage:
The frightening yet comic clown is one of the best and most enduring characters in literature, theater, television, and film. Across the centuries, from Shakespeare’s Porter in Macbeth to Edgar Allan Poe’s “Hop-Frog,” or Stephen King’s Pennywise, horror and comedy have blended to create the perfect recipe for entertainment. This volume gives an in-depth analysis of the clown horror genre, including essays by revered horror scholars such as Kevin Wetmore, Dale Bailey, Kim Hester Williams, Jennifer K. Cox, and Joanna Parypinski. Their essays cover topics such as nostalgia, race, class, and new portrayals of the scary clown as zombies or phantoms. It also offers interviews with actors and directors working in the clown horror genre: Eoghan McQuinn (Stitches), Kevin Kangas (Fear of Clowns), and Jaysen Buterin (Kill Giggles). Some of fiction’s most terrifying creations–like the Killer Klowns, Captain Spaulding, Art the Clown, Krusty, Frowny, the Joker, and Twisty–jig through these pages of analysis and deconstruction, asking what these many iterations of scary clowns have to say about our society and its fears.

À propos de l'auteur :
Writer and actor Ron Riekki has won several screenplay awards including best sci-fi/fantasy from the International Family Film Festival, best comedy from the Los Angeles Film Awards and the Nuclear Pen Award from the GenreBlast Film Festival.

Revue de Presse:
Finalist, Oddest Book Title of the Year—The Guardian’s Diagram Prize

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