I Am Legend as American Myth: Race and Masculinity in the Novel and Its Film Adaptations

by Amy J . Ransom (Author)

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  2018

  $32.72

  Over the decades, Richard Matheson's 1954 novel I Am Legend has spawned a series of iconic horror and science-fiction films. This reexamination of Matheson's original novel situates its tale of a man's conflicted attitude about killing racialized others within its post-World War II context, engaging the question of post-traumatic stress disorder. It then analyses the novel's film adaptations.