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Jonathan Allen Lethem (bo. 1964) is an American novelist, essayist and short story writer. His first novel, Gun, with Occasional Music, a genre work that mixed elements of science fiction and detective fiction, was published in 1994. It was followed by three more science fiction novels. In 1999, Lethem published Motherless Brooklyn, a National Book Critics Circle Award-winning novel that achieved mainstream success. N 2003, he published The Fortress of Solitude, which became a New York Times Best Seller.

In 1999, Lethem published Motherless Brooklyn, a National Book Critics Circle Award-winning novel that achieved mainstream success. In 2003, he published The Fortress of Solitude, which became a New York Times Best Seller. Jonathan Allen Lethem (bo. 1964) is an American novelist, essayist and short story writer. His first novel, Gun, with Occasional Music, a genre work that mixed elements of science fiction and detective fiction, was published in 1994.

Brian De Palma's 1976 adaptation of best-selling author Stephen King's first published novel Carrie didn't just put him on the map as one of the leading directors of the seventies, but became a landmark of the horror genre and one of the most iconic films of The New Hollywood Over the years it's been the subject of praise, admiration, imitation, parody, derision and polemical controversy, viewed simultaneously as a sick joke, a social satire, and a put down to women oseph Aisenberg's monumental study takes on the movie from every possible angle, from its first inception as a novel to its final incarnation on the screen Providing an in-depth analysis on a scene-by-scene basis, he examines not only the filmmakers' intentions, the who, what and how of it, but the arc of the film in context, how its laughs, drama and scares work together.

Isenberg reveals Carrie as a masterpiece of paranoiac wish fulfillment and divided emotional perspectives The author takes on Carrie's complex critical history; compares differences between the original source novel, screenplay drafts, and final film; provides interviews with Brian De Palma and screenwriter Lawrence D ohen; and in the process comes to terms with the long shadow of Carrie's popular legacy Joseph Aisenberg is a regular contributor to Bright Lights Film Journal and is currently at work on a novel titled Marriage Goes to The Movies!

Edition Details

• Will be available in both a trade paperback and 100-copy, limited edition signed hardcover, signed by author Joe Aisenberg and screenwriter Lawrence D. Cohen.
• Ribbon marker, head and tail bands, fully clothbound with four color image inset in the front board.

External Links

• Carrie: Studies in the Horror Film. Centipede Press page for Carrie: Studies in the Horror Film
• Studies in the Horror Film (ISFDB). ISFDB entry for Studies in the Horror Film