Philosophy in The Twilight Zone
by Editor: Noel Carroll (City University of New York ; ); Editor: Lester ; H. Hunt (University of Wisconsin-Madison )Format: eBook
Pub. Date: 2009-03-01
Publisher(s): Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary
Utilizing a series of essays examining the broad philosophical concepts embedded in Rod Serling's series, The Twilight Zone, Philosophy in The Twilight Zone provides a platform for further philosophical discussion. Features essays by eminent contemporary philosophers concerning the over-arching themes in The Twilight Zone, as well as in-depth discussions of particular episodes Fuses popular cult entertainment with classical philosophical perspectives Acts as a guide to unearthing larger questions - from human nature to the nature of reality and beyond - posed in the series Includes substantial critical and biographical information on series creator Rob Serling
Table of Contents
| Notes on Contributors | |
| Introduction | |
| "And Now, Rod Serling, Creator of The Twilight Zone": The Author as Auteur | |
| Tales of Dread in The Twilight Zone: A Contribution to Narratology | |
| Frame Shifters: Surprise Endings and Spectator Imagination in The Twilight Zone | |
| The Treachery of the Commonplace | |
| Where is the Twilight Zone? | |
| Existentialism and Searching for an Exit | |
| Through the Twilight Zone of Nonbeing: Two Exemplars of Race in Serling's Classic Series | |
| Blending Fiction and Reality: "The Odyssey of Flight 33" | |
| Epistemology at 20,000 Feet | |
| Rationality and Choice in "Nick of Time" | |
| "The Little People": Power and the Worshipable | |
| Nothing in the Dark: Deprivation, Death, and the Good Life | |
| Index | |
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