Ransom, Amy J. I Am Legend as American Myth
Race and Masculinity in the Novel and Its Film Adaptations
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21730394 |
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| Authors | F W Matthews (0000-0002-4762-2144, Dalhousie University, corresponding author), Fallen Matthews |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 18-1 |
| Publication date | 2020-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Belphégor (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1499-7185 • E-ISSN: 1499-7185 |
| Publisher | OpenEdition (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.4000/belphegor.2125 |
| OpenAlex | W3007804243 |
| Language | EN |
The cover of Amy J. Ransom’s I Am Legend as American Myth shows a lone man who trudges forth against a barren sky and a city whose former life is only evidenced by skeletons of concrete, whose death is manifest by the vampiric apparition that looms overhead to bare its fangs. Although taken from the I Am Legend film, the apocalypse is less thematic than peripheral in how Ransom incorporates race, masculinity, and positionality in her analyses of how the eponymous novel manages to be simultane
Archaeology · Art · Art history · Legend · Literature · Masculinity · Mythology · Ransom · Sociology · Comics and Graphic Narratives · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies · Gender Studies · Gothic Literature and Media Analysis · History
| Highly cited | No |
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