Author:
Parisi, Nicholas, author.
ImprintJackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2018]
Imprint2018
Descriptionxiv, 541 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Note:Foreword / Anne Serling -- Introduction -- From Binghamton to the battlefield and back -- A storm in Cincinnati -- Stars over Hollywood and Lux Video Theatre -- Serlings' obsolete men -- Armstrong Circle Theatre, Hallmark Hall of Fame, The Doctor, and Kraft Television Theatre -- A return to radio -- Chrysler Medallion Theatre, Motorola Television Hour, and Studio One -- Say something about something: Serling on having a point of view -- In praise of the individual -- Danger and Ford Theatre -- "Patterns": an overnight sensation five years in the making -- Climax!, United States Steel Hour, Matinee Theatre, and Kaiser Aluminum Hour -- Serling in the censorship arena -- From the middle ground to the murder of Emmett Till -- Of "dust" and "doomsday" -- Live from television city in Hollywood: Playhouse 90 -- A ninety-minute knockout: "Requiem for a heavyweight" -- Playhouse 90 -- In the presence of Whose enemies? Serling and anti-Semetism -- Patterns of violence -- It's about time: Desilu Playhouse's "The Time Element" -- Entering The Twilight Zone -- The Twilight Zone: season 1 -- The Twilight Zone: season 2 -- The Twilight Zone: season 3 -- The Twilight Zone: season 4 -- The Twilight Zone: season 5 -- After Twilight: Rod Serling's Twilight Zone Movie and The Twilight Zone: season 6 -- The Loner -- The Loner -- Another Christmas, another carol, and the Soviet Communist conspiracy -- Odd Street and The Doomsday Flight: the Twilight Zone sequel that never was -- Rod Serling and Planet of the Apes -- The New People and the same old song and dance -- "A storm in summer" -- A season to be wary of the Night Gallery -- Night Gallery: pilot and season 1 -- Night gallery: season 2 -- Night Gallery: season 3 -- Rod Serling: actor, narrator... game show host? -- Between science and superstition: Rod's religion -- A legacy as timeless as infinity -- Appendix A. Additional videography -- Appendix B. The Storm: videography, notes, and sources -- Appendix C. Selected uncredited and/or unproduced titles -- Appendix D. Rod Serling's works and awards.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 523-526), filmography, and index.
Note:"Long before anyone had heard of alien cookbooks, gremlins on the wings of airplanes, or places where pig-faced people are considered beautiful, Rod Serling was the most prestigious writer in American television. As creator, host, and primary writer for The Twilight Zone, Serling became something more: an American icon. When Serling died in 1975, at the age of fifty, he was the most honored, most outspoken, most recognizable, and likely the most prolific writer in television history. Though best known for The Twilight Zone, Serling wrote over 250 scripts for film and television and won an unmatched six Emmy Awards for dramatic writing for four different series. His filmography includes the acclaimed political thriller Seven Days in May and cowriting the original Planet of the Apes. In great detail and including never-published insights drawn directly from Serling's personal correspondence, unpublished writings, speeches, and unproduced scripts, Nicholas Parisi explores Serling's entire, massive body of work. With a foreword by Serling's daughter, Anne Serling, Rod Serling: His Life, Work, and Imagination is part biography, part videography, and part critical analysis. It is a painstakingly researched look at all of Serling's work--in and out of The Twilight Zone." -- Provided by publisher.
