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Richard Matheson's Monsters: Gender in the Stories, Scripts, Novels, and Twilight Zone Episodes

Richard Matheson's Monsters: Gender in the Stories, Scripts, Novels, and Twilight Zone Episodes

Pulliam, June M.
Fonseca, Anthony J.

Hardcover

Series: Studies in Supernatural Literature

Literary CriticismTelevision

ISBN10: 144226067X
ISBN13: 9781442260672
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: Feb 2 2016
Pages: 268
Weight: 1.30
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

Richard Matheson was one of the leading writers of science fiction, fantasy, and horror in the twentieth century. Matheson's most famous early works, the novels I Am Legend (1954) and The Shrinking Man (1956), both depict traditionally masculine figures thrust into extraordinary situations. Other thought-provoking novels, including Hell House (1971), Bid Time Return (1975), and What Dreams May Come (1978)--as well as short stories and screenplays--convey the ambiguous status of masculinity: how men should behave vis-à-vis women and what role they should occupy in the family dynamic and in society at large.

In Richard Matheson's Monsters: Gender in the Stories, Scripts, Novels and Twilight Zone Episodes, June M. Pulliam and Anthony J. Fonseca examine how this groundbreaking author's writings shed light on society's ever-shifting attitudes on masculinity and domesticity. In this first full-length critical study of Matheson's entire literary output, the authors discuss how I Am Legend, The Shrinking Man, and other works question traditional male roles. The authors examine how Matheson's scripts for The Twilight Zone represented changing expectations in male behavior with the onset of the sexual and feminist revolutions, industrialization and globalization, and other issues.

In a society where gender roles are questioned every day, Matheson's work is more relevant than ever. Richard Matheson's Monsters will be of interest to scholars of literature, film, and television, as well those interested in gender and masculinity studies.

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