Christopher Benedict

The Twilight Rounds (eBook, ePUB)

Rod Serling Explores the Dark Side of Boxing

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Award-winning writer Rod Serling revolutionized television. His celebrated career, including bruising bouts with executives over censorship, is rooted in the boxing ring. Serling scholar and boxing expert Christopher Benedict ventures between the ring lights and the shadow of the screenplay to offer a deftly guided tour through Serling's personal and literary history with the controversial sport.

Benedict pulls back the curtain on Serling's time in the ring as a prizefighter and how that influenced his groundbreaking writing. From Serling's first ever published piece of work, a boxing story featured in The Antiochian, to the Peabody Award winning Requiem for a Heavyweight, to The Twilight Zone and beyond. Noted for finding humanity, poignancy, and pathos deep within the violent spectacle of boxing, Rod Serling's powerful influence on the genre still reverberates through modern big budget blockbuster fight films like Rocky, Raging Bull, and Million Dollar Baby.

Through these ten incredible rounds you'll meet a salty cast of pugnacious pugilists and discover the unforgettable stories they inspired Rod Serling to create. The result is a knockout exploration of Serling's literary art and "the sweet science" which we call The Twilight Rounds.

"This is a knockout piece of work."

-Nicholas Parisi, President of The Rod Serling Memorial Foundation and author of Rod Serling: His Life, Work, and Imagination

The Twilight Rounds seamlessly intertwines a fascinating biography of Serling's short life, with a well-sourced, enjoyably cerebral, and engagingly visual examination of Serling's unforgettable boxing-related stories."

-Catherine Johnson, boxing historian and author of Then the World Moved On: The Brutal Truth Behind the Max Baer-Frankie Campbell Fight

The Twilight Rounds is a highly informative and entertaining journey."

-Steve Hunt, host of the Boxing Movie Podcast and author of Heavyweight Title Fights of the 1980s

"Christopher Benedict reveals how the grit of the sport directly fueled Serling's storytelling, and it certainly managed to draw me in to that world - even as someone with no boxing knowledge whatsoever!"

-Emi O'Sullivan, co-Host of The After-Hours Podcast

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jobber House Press, LLC
• Seitenzahl: 152
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Dezember 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798988609254
• Artikelnr.: 76063124

Autorenporträt

Christopher Benedict has authored six books about the sport of boxing. His writings are featured and preserved on the WBAN (Women's Boxing Archive Network) Historical Database, founded and maintained by trailblazing female prizefighter Sue 'Tiger Lilly' Fox. An elector for both the International Boxing Hall of Fame and International Women's Boxing Hall of Fame, Benedict is also a member of The Ring magazine women's boxing ratings panel and served as a contributing archive researcher for the 2023 documentary Right To Fight. In September 2024, he was a featured presenter at SerlingFest: A Serling Centennial, delivering a presentation based on The Twilight Rounds at the Forum Theatre in Rod Serling's hometown of Binghamton. A lifelong enthusiast of monster movies and science fiction, Chris also wrote a book of essays on these beloved genres called Needs Must When the Devil Drives which begins with a lengthy look inside Rod Serling's involvement in 1968's Planet of the Apes.