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9781444310368

Philosophy in The Twilight Zone

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  • ISBN13:

    9781444310368

  • ISBN10:

    1444310364

  • Format: eBook
  • Copyright: 2009-03-01
  • Publisher: 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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