Reading Richard Matheson : a critical study /

This volume examines seven of Richard Matheson's (1926-2013) full-length novels, a sampling of short stories and several film adaptations. The chapters, which are arranged in three thematic sections, emphasize Matheson's historical prominence, consider his precursors and successors and sit...

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Other Authors: Mathews, Cheyenne, 1981- (Editor), Haedicke, Janet V., 1947- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2014]
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505 0 |a I am legend: influence and intertextuality. "Crawling out of the Middle Ages": the deep literary roots of the vampires in I am legend by Charles Hoge; "The last of the old race": I am legend and bio-vampire-politics by Aspasia Stephanou; "Wild work": the monstrosity of whiteness in I am legend by Adryan Glasgow; "The world is quieter now": the threat of silence in Night of the living dead and I am legend by Ruth Ellen Covington; Last-person narration: cultural imagination at the end of the world as we know it by Glenn Jellenik; Who killed all the humans?: the threat of conformity, consumerism, and pure war in "Lemmings" by Amy S. Jorgensen; Norms from the 1950s to now: gender, sexuality, and race. Giant bugs and shrinking men: domesticating technology in The incredible shrinking man by Amanda Hagood; (Male) matter and its dissolution: crisis of masculinities as horror in Richard Matheson's short stories by Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns; 'The most monstrous of monsters": gender, sexuality, and marriage in a stir of echoes and earthbound by Rebecca Janicker -- "Amelia" and trilogy of terror: mother-daughter identification and the oscillation of the abject-matrophobic by Kyle Christensen; "The most bizarre of all": reading progressive race and gender identity markers in "From shadowed places" by Tiffany A. Bryant; "Lice-infested, mule-eating apaches!": the intersection of the first technological revolution and gothic imperialism in Shadow on the sun by Shannon Cummings -- The forms of Matheson's fiction. What would you do? : justice between destiny and freedom in Richard Matheson's short fiction by Ralph Beliveau; A "private and particular hell": Mathesonian noir in The twilight zone by Cheyenne Mathews; (Re)presenting the past: Bid time return as historiographic metafiction by Tanfer Emin Tunc; Locked in time: trauma, memory, and the Barthesian punctum in Richard Matheson's fiction by Simon Bacon; Another time: novelizing history after the canon in Matheson by Joshua Comer. 
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