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Reading Richard Matheson
A Critical Survey
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2014
Summary
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.
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Copyright year
2014
ISBN-Print
978-1-4422-3465-9
ISBN-Online
978-1-4422-3466-6
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
244
Product type
Edited Book
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Contents No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access
1 “Crawling Out of the Middle Ages” No access
2 “The Last of the Old Race” No access
3 “Wild Work” No access
4 “The World Is Quieter Now” No access
5 Last-Person Narration No access
6 Who Killed All the Humans? No access
7 Giant Bugs and Shrinking Men No access
8 (Male) Matter and Its Dissolution No access
9 “The Most Monstrous of Monsters” No access
10 “Amelia” and Trilogy of Terror No access
11 “The Most Bizarre of All” No access
12 “Lice-Infested, Mule-Eating Apaches!” No access
13 What Would You Do? No access
14 A “Private and Particular Hell” No access
15 (Re)Presenting the Past No access
16 Locked in Time No access
17 Another Time No access
Index No access Pages 239 - 242
About the Editors and Contributors No access Pages 243 - 244
