The Many Lives of Scary Clowns: Essays on Pennywise, Twisty, the Joker, Krusty and More
Ron Riekki, "The Many Lives of Scary Clowns: Essays on Pennywise, Twisty, the Joker, Krusty and More"
English | ISBN: 1476680914 | 2022 | 182 pages | PDF | 7 MB
English | ISBN: 1476680914 | 2022 | 182 pages | PDF | 7 MB
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 (
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