Everything I Need to Know I Learned in the Twilight Zone
Everything I Need to Know I Learned in the Twilight Zone

Author: Mark Dawidziak

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2017-02-28

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 1250082382

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Can you live your life by what The Twilight Zone has to teach you? Yes, and maybe you should. The proof is in this lighthearted collection of life lessons, ground rules, inspirational thoughts, and stirring reminders found in Rod Serling’s timeless fantasy series. Written by veteran TV critic, Mark Dawidziak, this unauthorized tribute is a celebration of the classic anthology show, but also, on another level, a kind of fifth-dimension self-help book, with each lesson supported by the morality tales told by Serling and his writers. The notion that “it’s never too late to reinvent yourself” soars through “The Last Flight,’’ in which a World War I flier who goes forward in time and gets the chance to trade cowardice for heroism. A visit from an angel blares out the wisdom of “follow your passion” in “A Passage for Trumpet.” The meaning of “divided we fall” is driven home with dramatic results when neighbors suspect neighbors of being invading aliens in “The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street.” The old maxim about never judging a book by its cover is given a tasty twist when an alien tome is translated in “To Serve Man.”

The Twilight Zone
The Twilight Zone

Author: Nona Fernández

Publisher: Graywolf Press

Published: 2021-03-16

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 1644451433

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* Finalist for the National Book Award for Translated Literature * An engrossing, incantatory novel about the legacy of historical crimes by the author of Space Invaders It is 1984 in Chile, in the middle of the Pinochet dictatorship. A member of the secret police walks into the office of a dissident magazine and finds a reporter, who records his testimony. The narrator of Nona Fernández’s mesmerizing and terrifying novel The Twilight Zone is a child when she first sees this man’s face on the magazine’s cover with the words “I Tortured People.” His complicity in the worst crimes of the regime and his commitment to speaking about them haunt the narrator into her adulthood and career as a writer and documentarian. Like a secret service agent from the future, through extraordinary feats of the imagination, Fernández follows the “man who tortured people” to places that archives can’t reach, into the sinister twilight zone of history where morning routines, a game of chess, Yuri Gagarin, and the eponymous TV show of the novel’s title coexist with the brutal yet commonplace machinations of the regime. How do crimes vanish in plain sight? How does one resist a repressive regime? And who gets to shape the truths we live by and take for granted? The Twilight Zone pulls us into the dark portals of the past, reminding us that the work of the writer in the face of historical erasure is to imagine so deeply that these absences can be, for a time, spectacularly illuminated.

Twilight Zone
Twilight Zone

Author: Harlan Ellison

Publisher: Macmillan + ORM

Published: 2009-08-12

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 1429929251

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An original anthology celebrating Rod Serling's landmark television series When it first aired in 1959, The Twilight Zone was nothing less than groundbreaking television. Freed from much of the censors' strict oversight because of the show's classification as "science fiction," the 156 filmed episodes explored powerful and moving human themes—love, hate, pride, jealousy, terror—in their own unique style.The show has since inspired two revivals, as well as fiction, comic books, and magazines, and even a pinball game and theme park rides. Just as important, it sparked the imaginations of countless writers, filmmakers, and fans around the world, and is considered a seminal show for broadening the horizons of television. This anthology will be an all-new collection of stories written in the vein of the original television show. Edited and featured and introduction by Carol Serling, the anthology will include brand new stories by science fiction and fantasy luminaries such as Whitley Strieber, Loren D. Estleman, Joe Lansdale, R. L. Stine, Timothy Zahn, and Peter S. Beagle, as well as writers from the original series, Earl Hammer and Harlan Ellison®, all in honor of Rod's incredible vision. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The Many Lives of The Twilight Zone
The Many Lives of The Twilight Zone

Author: Ron Riekki

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2022-10-04

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 1476681015

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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.

Rod Serling
Rod Serling

Author: Joel Engel

Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Contemporary

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13:

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Tells the intriguing story of the life of the man who created "The Twilight Zone," won six Emmys and a Peabody Award, yet was a tormented man who doubted his writing ability.

A Critical History of Television's The Twilight Zone, 1959-1964
A Critical History of Television's The Twilight Zone, 1959-1964

Author: Don Presnell

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2015-07-11

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 147661038X

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Rod Serling's anthology series The Twilight Zone is recognized as one of the greatest television shows of all time. Always intelligent and thought-provoking, the show used the conventions of several genres to explore such universal qualities as violence, fear, prejudice, love, death, and individual identity. This comprehensive reference work gives a complete history of the show, from its beginning in 1959 to its final 1964 season, with critical commentaries, incisive analyses, and the most complete listing of casts and credits ever published. Biographical profiles of writers and contributors are included, followed by detailed appendices, bibliography and index.

Journeys to the Twilight Zone
Journeys to the Twilight Zone

Author: Carol Serling

Publisher: D A W Books, Incorporated

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9780886775254

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Under the skillful editorship of Rod Serling's widow, this anthology offers a wonderful array of new ventures into the unexplored territory of the imagination. Alan Dean Foster, Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, William Nolan, Henry Slesar, and other top fantasy and horror authors present striking stories featuring those special Twilight Zone endings. Includes Rod Serling's classic tale "Suggestion".

Twilight Zones
Twilight Zones

Author: Susan Bordo

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 0520211022

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Considering everything from Nike ads, amaciated models, and surgically altered breasts to the culture wars and the O.J. Simpson trial, author Susan Bordo deciphers the hidden life of cultural images and the impact they have on our lives. With compassion, honesty, and intelligence, Bordo questions the basis of our concepts of reality. 31 b&w photos.

Dimensions Behind the Twilight Zone
Dimensions Behind the Twilight Zone

Author: Stewart T. Stanyard

Publisher: ECW Press

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 313

ISBN-13: 1550227440

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A visually stunning backstage glimpse through time and space into the history and making of Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone. This is an invitation to explore a portion of the show's archives: over 300 original behind-the-scenes production stills taken during filming, accompanied by insightful captions, rare documents and interviews with 40 producers, directors, writers and actors who worked on the series including Bill Murray and Earl Hammer, Jr. With a foreword by Neil Gaiman.