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020    $a 1442234652 (cloth : alk. paper)
020    $a 9781442234659 (cloth : alk. paper)
035    $a (OCoLC)871186861
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050 00 $a PS3563.A8355 $b Z82 2014
245 00 $a Reading Richard Matheson : $b a critical study / $c edited by Cheyenne Mathews, Janet V. Haedicke.
264  1 $a Lanham, Maryland : $b Rowman & Littlefield, $c [2014]
300    $a xviii, 244 pages ; $c 24 cm
504    $a Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
505 8  $a 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 --
505 8  $a 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.
520    $a "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 situate him within narrative traditions of mythology, cinema, genre, and memory studies"--Provided by publisher.
600 10 $a Matheson, Richard, $d 1926-2013 $x Criticism and interpretation.
650  0 $a Science fiction, American $x History and criticism.
650  0 $a Horror tales, American $y 20th century $x History and criticism.
650  0 $a Gothic revival (Literature) $z United States.
700 1  $a Mathews, Cheyenne, $d 1981- $e editor.
700 1  $a Haedicke, Janet V., $d 1947- $e editor.
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