{"product_id":"the-many-lives-of-the-twilight-zone-9781476681016","title":"The Many Lives of The Twilight Zone","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e   More than sixty years after the \u003ci\u003eThe Twilight Zone\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003eRon Riekki\u003cbr\u003eSubmitted for Your Approval: A Host and His Series and Their Remarkable Afterlives—An Introduction\u003cbr\u003eKevin J. Wetmore, Jr.\u003cbr\u003ePart I. A Dimension of Mind: Ideas, Philosophy, and the Original Series\u003cbr\u003eMiddle Ground: The Twilight Zone as Social Criticism\u003cbr\u003eValerie L. Guyant\u003cbr\u003eSocial Liberalism and Orthodox Theology: Ideas of God in The Twilight Zone\u003cbr\u003eBrandon R. Grafius\u003cbr\u003eRod Serling and the Ambiguity of Being \u003cbr\u003eKevin Bolinger\u003cbr\u003eThe Twilight of Humanism\u003cbr\u003eAlexander E. Hooke\u003cbr\u003eThe Strange Zone of Speculative Rhetoric\u003cbr\u003eJimmy Butts\u003cbr\u003eSerling and the Bomb: The Twilight Zone's Nuclear Landscape\u003cbr\u003eMolly A. Schneider\u003cbr\u003eThe Twilight Zone Goes to War!\u003cbr\u003eElsa M. Carruthers and Paul Popiel\u003cbr\u003ePart II. \"Remember that one episode?\"\u003cbr\u003eFrom Demonic \"Opie\" to Latchkey Kid: The Narrative\/Character Shifts in \"It's a Good Life\" from Television to Film\u003cbr\u003eErin Giannini\u003cbr\u003e\"Stopover in a Quiet Town,\" the Horror Film, and Dread of the Child\u003cbr\u003eDawn Keetley\u003cbr\u003eGrief, Loss, and the Unknown: The Hauntological Phantasm of Richard Matheson's The Twilight Zone\u003cbr\u003eMelissa A. Kaufler\u003cbr\u003e\"It's simply out of my hands\": Human Nature as Illustrated in The Twilight Zone's \"The Shelter\"\u003cbr\u003eMichael Meyerhofer\u003cbr\u003ePart III. The Twilight Zone in the Eighties\u003cbr\u003eTwilight Zone: The Meta: Interior and Epiphenomenal Elements That Frame Twilight Zone: The Movie\u003cbr\u003eKevin J. Wetmore, Jr.\u003cbr\u003eTwilight of the Vampires: The Twilight Zone, Vampires, America, and\u003cbr\u003eSimon Bacon\u003cbr\u003eIf You Dream It, They Will Film\u003cbr\u003ePaul Chitlik\u003cbr\u003eMy \"If She Dies\" Diary: A Writer's Personal Journey into The Twilight Zone\u003cbr\u003eDavid Bennett Carren\u003cbr\u003ePart IV. Comparative Zones\u003cbr\u003eStrange Realities: Twilight ­Zone–sploitation in Encounter with the Unknown\u003cbr\u003eNicholas Diak\u003cbr\u003eGet Out of The Twilight Zone: The Original TV Series and Newest Reboot Juxtaposed\u003cbr\u003eDavid Melbye\u003cbr\u003ePart V. Staging the Zone\u003cbr\u003eFrom Curator to ­Co-Author: Examining the Narrative and Political Choices in Anne Washburn's Stage Adaptation of The Twilight Zone\u003cbr\u003eWilliam C. Boles\u003cbr\u003eA Twilight Zone of Our Own: Production Is Storytelling\u003cbr\u003eSteve Krahnke and Michael Aronson\u003cbr\u003eAbout the Contributors\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"McFarland \u0026 Co Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040473940311,"sku":"9781476681016","price":20.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781476681016.jpg?v=1750946871","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-many-lives-of-the-twilight-zone-9781476681016","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}