More than sixty years after the The Twilight Zone debuted on television, the show remains a cultural phenomenon, including a feature film, three television reboots, a comic book series, a magazine and a theatrical production. This collection of new essays offers a roadmap through a dimension not only of sight and sound, but of mind. Scholars, writers, artists and contributors to the 1980s series investigate the many incarnations of Rod Serling's influential vision through close readings of episodes, explorations of major themes and first-person accounts of working on the show.
More than sixty years after the The Twilight Zone debuted on television, the show remains a cultural phenomenon, including a feature film, three television reboots, a comic book series, a magazine and a theatrical production. This collection of new essays offers a roadmap through a dimension not only of sight and sound, but of mind. Scholars, writers, artists and contributors to the 1980s series investigate the many incarnations of Rod Serling's influential vision through close readings of episodes, explorations of major themes and first-person accounts of working on the show.
Writer and actor Ron Riekki has won several screenplay awards including best sci-fi/fantasy from the International Family Film Festival, best comedy from the Los Angeles Film Awards and the Nuclear Pen Award from the GenreBlast Film Festival. Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr., is a professional actor and director whose previous books have covered topics ranging from Star Wars to Renaissance faires. He is a professor and chair of the theater department at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California.
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Table of Contents Acknowledgments Preface Ron Riekki Submitted for Your Approval: A Host and His Series and Their Remarkable Afterlives-An Introduction Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr. Part I. A Dimension of Mind: Ideas, Philosophy, and the Original Series Middle Ground: The Twilight Zone as Social Criticism Valerie L. Guyant Social Liberalism and Orthodox Theology: Ideas of God in The Twilight Zone Brandon R. Grafius Rod Serling and the Ambiguity of Being Kevin Bolinger The Twilight of Humanism Alexander E. Hooke The Strange Zone of Speculative Rhetoric Jimmy Butts Serling and the Bomb: The Twilight Zone's Nuclear Landscape Molly A. Schneider The Twilight Zone Goes to War! Elsa M. Carruthers and Paul Popiel Part II. "Remember that one episode?" From Demonic "Opie" to Latchkey Kid: The Narrative/Character Shifts in "It's a Good Life" from Television to Film Erin Giannini "Stopover in a Quiet Town," the Horror Film, and Dread of the Child Dawn Keetley Grief, Loss, and the Unknown: The Hauntological Phantasm of Richard Matheson's The Twilight Zone Melissa A. Kaufler "It's simply out of my hands": Human Nature as Illustrated in The Twilight Zone's "The Shelter" Michael Meyerhofer Part III. The Twilight Zone in the Eighties Twilight Zone: The Meta: Interior and Epiphenomenal Elements That Frame Twilight Zone: The Movie Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr. Twilight of the Vampires: The Twilight Zone, Vampires, America, and Simon Bacon If You Dream It, They Will Film Paul Chitlik My "If She Dies" Diary: A Writer's Personal Journey into The Twilight Zone David Bennett Carren Part IV. Comparative Zones Strange Realities: Twilight Zone-sploitation in Encounter with the Unknown Nicholas Diak Get Out of The Twilight Zone: The Original TV Series and Newest Reboot Juxtaposed David Melbye Part V. Staging the Zone From Curator to Co-Author: Examining the Narrative and Political Choices in Anne Washburn's Stage Adaptation of The Twilight Zone William C. Boles A Twilight Zone of Our Own: Production Is Storytelling Steve Krahnke and Michael Aronson About the Contributors Index
Table of Contents Acknowledgments Preface Ron Riekki Submitted for Your Approval: A Host and His Series and Their Remarkable Afterlives-An Introduction Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr. Part I. A Dimension of Mind: Ideas, Philosophy, and the Original Series Middle Ground: The Twilight Zone as Social Criticism Valerie L. Guyant Social Liberalism and Orthodox Theology: Ideas of God in The Twilight Zone Brandon R. Grafius Rod Serling and the Ambiguity of Being Kevin Bolinger The Twilight of Humanism Alexander E. Hooke The Strange Zone of Speculative Rhetoric Jimmy Butts Serling and the Bomb: The Twilight Zone's Nuclear Landscape Molly A. Schneider The Twilight Zone Goes to War! Elsa M. Carruthers and Paul Popiel Part II. "Remember that one episode?" From Demonic "Opie" to Latchkey Kid: The Narrative/Character Shifts in "It's a Good Life" from Television to Film Erin Giannini "Stopover in a Quiet Town," the Horror Film, and Dread of the Child Dawn Keetley Grief, Loss, and the Unknown: The Hauntological Phantasm of Richard Matheson's The Twilight Zone Melissa A. Kaufler "It's simply out of my hands": Human Nature as Illustrated in The Twilight Zone's "The Shelter" Michael Meyerhofer Part III. The Twilight Zone in the Eighties Twilight Zone: The Meta: Interior and Epiphenomenal Elements That Frame Twilight Zone: The Movie Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr. Twilight of the Vampires: The Twilight Zone, Vampires, America, and Simon Bacon If You Dream It, They Will Film Paul Chitlik My "If She Dies" Diary: A Writer's Personal Journey into The Twilight Zone David Bennett Carren Part IV. Comparative Zones Strange Realities: Twilight Zone-sploitation in Encounter with the Unknown Nicholas Diak Get Out of The Twilight Zone: The Original TV Series and Newest Reboot Juxtaposed David Melbye Part V. Staging the Zone From Curator to Co-Author: Examining the Narrative and Political Choices in Anne Washburn's Stage Adaptation of The Twilight Zone William C. Boles A Twilight Zone of Our Own: Production Is Storytelling Steve Krahnke and Michael Aronson About the Contributors Index
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