Philosophy in the Twilight Zone

by Carroll, Noël; Hunt, Lester H.

• ISBN13: 9781405149044
• ISBN10: 1405149043
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-05-04
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

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 culture with classical philosophical perspectives Acts as a guide to unearthing larger questions Includes substantial critical and biographical information on series creator Rob Serling

Author Biography

Noël Carroll is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, a former President of the American Society for Aesthetics, and a recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship. He has published numerous books including the Philosophy of Horror (1990) and A Philosophy of Mass Art (1999). He has also worked as a journalist and has written five documentary pictures.

Lester H. Hunt is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He has also taught at Carnegie-Mellon University, the University of Pittsburgh, and The John Hopkins University. He has written extensively on ethics, political philosophy, and the aesthetics of film, and is the author of Nietzsche and the Origins of Virtue (1990) and Character and Culture (1998). He is currently working on a book on anarchy and the justification of the state.

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

öAnd Now, Rod Serling, Creator of The Twilight Zone ô: 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 SerlingÆs Classic Series

Blending Fiction and Reality: ôThe Odyssey of Flight 33ö

Epistemology at 20,000 Feet

Rationality and Choice in ôNick of Timeö

öThe Little Peopleö: Power and the Worshipable

Nothing in the Dark: Deprivation, Death, and the Good Life

Index

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