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Book SynopsisIf you've ever felt lost in The Twilight Zone, this book is for you. Then, again, when you read what these philosophers have to say you may want to stay! William Irwin, King's College The Twilight Zone smuggled philosophy onto television in the form of a series of ingenious mind-teasers, seizing the audience's imagination.
Trade Review"The anthology's substantial entries offer the reader rigorous, lucid, and stylistically polished arguments about one of the best dramas ever to grace American television screens. This collection is, to invoke Serling's memorable prose style, worthy of one's perusal, consideration, and review." (Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, 21 March 2011)
Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors
Introduction: Lester H. Hunt
1. “And Now, Rod Serling, Creator of The Twilight Zone”: The Author as Auteur: Lester H. Hunt
2. Tales of Dread in The Twilight Zone: A Contribution to Narratology: Noël Carroll
3. Frame Shifters: Surprise Endings and Spectator Imagination in The Twilight Zone: Carl Plantinga
4. The Treachery of the Commonplace: Mary Sirridge
5. Where is the Twilight Zone?: Richard Hanley
6. Existentialism and Searching for an Exit: Susan L. Feagin
7. Through the Twilight Zone of Nonbeing: Two Exemplars of Race in Serling’s Classic Series: Lewis R. Gordon
8. Blending Fiction and Reality: “The Odyssey of Flight 33": Thomas E. Wartenberg
9. Epistemology at 20,000 Feet: Sheila Lintott
10. Rationality and Choice in “Nick of Time”: Aeon J. Skoble
11. “The Little People”: Power and the Worshipable: Aaron Smuts
12. Nothing in the Dark: Deprivation, Death, and the Good Life: James S. Taylor
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