{"id":1975,"date":"2011-05-02T01:00:38","date_gmt":"2011-05-02T05:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/info-libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/?p=1975"},"modified":"2023-07-20T17:53:13","modified_gmt":"2023-07-20T17:53:13","slug":"1976","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/2011\/05\/02\/1976\/","title":{"rendered":"Year 116 &#8211; 1976: Carrie directed by Brian De Palma and written by Lawrence D. Cohen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Theatrical release: November 3, 1976<a href=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/2011\/05\/02\/1976\/1976-carrie-fire-blood\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1976\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1976 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/04\/1976-carrie-fire-blood-220x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/04\/1976-carrie-fire-blood-220x300.jpg 220w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/04\/1976-carrie-fire-blood-624x852.jpg 624w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/04\/1976-carrie-fire-blood.jpg 689w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s an iconic scene: Sissy Spacek as Carrie White, dressed in satin of the palest pink, has just been named Prom Queen. As she accepts the award, a smile lights up her face. Suddenly a bucket of pig\u2019s blood showers over her, drenching her in red. All hell literally breaks loose as Carrie uses her telekinetic powers to wreak vengeance on the entire school.<\/p>\n<p>Today, <em>Carrie <\/em>is considered one of the finest horror movies ever made. It shocked audiences, was a box office smash, and earned Academy Award nominations for both Spacek and Piper Laurie, who played Carrie\u2019s overbearing, religious fanatic mother. The film also features John Travolta in his first major motion picture role.<\/p>\n<p><em>Carrie <\/em>helped introduce the world to the modern \u201cKing\u201d of horror, Stephen King. The novel <em>Carrie, <\/em>his first published book, had appeared in 1974. The 1976 film version became the first of many movies based on King\u2019s work. Don\u2019t look for the author himself in <em>Carrie<\/em>, though \u2013 unlike most movies based on his books, Stephen King has no cameo in the film.<\/p>\n<p><em>Carrie <\/em>is part of the MIT Libraries\u2019 ever-growing DVD collection, which includes everything from Bergman (both Ingmar and Ingrid) to Kurosawa to the Farrelly brothers. <em>Carrie,<\/em> like many films in the Humanities Library collection, was made available through the generosity of Stephen Brophy, a lecturer in Writing Across the Curriculum, a part of MIT\u2019s Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mit.primo.exlibrisgroup.com\/permalink\/01MIT_INST\/jp08pj\/alma990015286110106761\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Find it in the library<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Theatrical release: November 3, 1976 It\u2019s an iconic scene: Sissy Spacek as Carrie White, dressed in satin of the palest pink, has just been named Prom Queen. As she accepts the award, a smile lights up her face. Suddenly a bucket of pig\u2019s blood showers over her, drenching her in red. All hell literally breaks loose as Carrie uses her telekinetic powers to wreak vengeance on the entire school. Today, Carrie is considered one of the finest horror movies ever made. It shocked audiences, was a box office smash, and earned Academy Award nominations for both Spacek and Piper Laurie, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":false,"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1975"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4397,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1975\/revisions\/4397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}