In the Zone : The Twilight World of Rod Serling
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The Twilight Zone explores the possibilities inherent in the ordinary. A Twilight Zone episode can move us by being poignant and intimate, rambunctious or thought provoking. It can also be orchestrated as a set of intertwined plot developments or as a serial progression. But regardless of whether it takes place on an asteroid, in a city pool room, or in the backwoods, it will usually convey both a folklorist's eye for detail and the born raconteur's sense of pace. Rod Serling (the show's founder, main scriptwriter, and artistic director) knew how much burden he could place on his rhetorical and dramatic gifts. In The Zone is a tribute to one of the celebrated pioneers in television science fiction and a "must read" by every fan of the still popular series.
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The classic television show The Twilight Zone explored the possibilities inhering in the ordinary. A Twilight Zone episode moved us by being poignant and intimate, rambunctious or thought provoking. But whether it takes place on an asteroid, in a city pool room, or in the backwoods, it will usually convey both a folklorist’s eye for detail and the born raconteur’s sense of pace. Rod Serling, the show’s originator, main scriptwriter, and artistic director, knew how much burden he could place on his rhetorical and dramatic gifts. Deservedly celebrated as a pioneer fiction writer for television, Serling always grounded his work in the human condition: he wrote movingly about history and loyalty, the grip of everyday reality, and the dangers of both forgetting about one’s ghosts and giving them the upper hand.
In the Zone : The Twilight World of Rod Serling
In the Zone : The Twilight World of Rod Serling,Peter Wolfe,Popular Press 1,0879727306,1924-,Criticism and interpretation,Performing Arts,Performing Arts/Dance,Pop Arts / Pop Culture,Serling, Rod,,Television - General,Television - History & Criticism,Twilight zone (Television prog,Twilight zone (Television program),Fiction - Science Fiction,Performing Arts / Television / Screenwriting,Television Plays And Programs
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