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Reading Richard Matheson: A Critical Survey
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by Cheyenne Mathews (Editor), Janet V. Haedicke (Editor)
Cheyenne Mathews
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Reading Richard Matheson: A Critical Survey
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by Cheyenne Mathews (Editor), Janet V. Haedicke (Editor)
Cheyenne Mathews
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Overview
Richard Matheson (1926–2013) was a prolific author and screenwriter whose career helped shape the horror and fantasy genres in literature, film, and television for over sixty years. Matheson authored more than ninety short stories and dozens of novels, many of which—including I Am Legend, A Stir of Echoes, What Dreams May Come, The Shrinking Man, Hell House, and Bid Time Return—have been adapted into feature films. Despite his extensive body of work and influence, however, Matheson has remained largely outside the scope of academic scrutiny. The essays in Reading Richard Matheson: A Critical Survey provide the first critical overview of Matheson’s texts, covering seven of Matheson’s novels, a sampling of short stories, and several adaptations for both film and television. The essays are arranged thematically and address the sociopolitical anxieties reflected in Matheson’s oeuvre; consider his precursors and successors; and situate him within narrative traditions of mythology, cinema, genre, and memory studies. By providing an overview of his career, Reading Richard Matheson illustrates how a commercial writer can contribute to academic discourses of literature and film. Though the essays use a variety of theoretical frameworks, the crossover nature of the collection reflects the broad range of Matheson’s output. As such, this volume will appeal to fans of Matheson’s work in general as well as scholars of literature, film studies, cultural studies, genre studies, media studies, memory studies, and popular culture.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781442234659 |
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Publisher: | Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. |
Publication date: | 05/07/2014 |
Pages: | 262 |
Product dimensions: | 5.90(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.90(d) |
About the Author
Cheyenne Mathews is a Ph.D. student in modern British literature at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Her research interests include espionage fiction, film, and popular culture. Janet V. Haedicke, Ph.D., is a professor in the department of English at the University of Louisiana at Monroe. She has served as editor of the Tennessee Williams Literary Journal, president of the David Mamet Society, and performance review editor of the David Mamet Newsletter.
Table of Contents
Introduction Richard Matheson: Wisdom WriterCheyenne MathewsPart I. I Am Legend: Influence and IntertextualityChapter 1: “Crawling Out of the Middle Ages”: The Deep Literary Roots of the Vampires in I Am Legend, Charles HogeChapter 2: “The last of the old race”: I Am Legend and Bio-Vampire-Politics, Aspasia StephanouChapter 3: “Wild Work”: The Monstrosity of Whiteness in I Am Legend, Adryan GlasgowChapter 4: “The World is Quieter Now”: The Threat of Silence in Night of the Living Dead and I Am Legend, Ruth Ellen CovingtonChapter 5: Last-Person Narration: Cultural Imagination At the End of the World As We Know It, Glenn JellenikChapter 6: Who Killed All the Humans?: The Threat of Conformity, Consumerism, and Pure War in “Lemmings,” Amy S. JorgensenPart II. Norms from the 1950s to Now: Gender, Sexuality, and RaceChapter 7: Giant Bugs and Shrinking Men: Domesticating Technology in The Incredible Shrinking Man, Amanda HagoodChapter 8: (Male) Matter and its Dissolution: Crisis of Masculinities as Horror in Richard Matheson’s Short Stories, Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni BernsChapter 9:“The Most Monstrous of Monsters”: Gender, Sexuality, and Marriage in A Stir of Echoes and Earthbound, Rebecca JanickerChapter 10: “Amelia” and Trilogy of Terror: Mother-Daughter Identification and the 'scillation of the Abject-Matrophobic, Kyle ChristensenChapter 11: “The Most Bizarre of All”: Reading Progressive Race and Gender Identity Markers in “From Shadowed Places,” Tiffany A. BryantChapter 12: “lice-infested, mule-eating Apaches!”: The Intersection of the First Technological Revolution and Gothic Imperialism in Shadow on the Sun, Shannon CummingsPart III. The Forms of Matheson’s FictionChapter 13: What Would You Do? Justice Between Destiny and Freedom in Richard Matheson’s Short Fiction, Ralph BeliveauChapter 14: A “private and particular hell”: Mathesonian Noir in The Twilight Zone, Cheyenne MathewsChapter 15: (Re)Presenting the Past: Bid Time Return as Historiographic Metafiction, Tanfer Emin TuncChapter 16: Locked in Time: Trauma, Memory, and the Barthesian Punctum in Richard Matheson’s Fiction, Simon BaconChapter 17: Another Time: Novelizing History after the Canon in Matheson, Joshua ComerFrom the B&N Reads Blog
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