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In the Zone : The Twilight World of Rod Serling
In the Zone The Twilight World of Rod Serling Author:Peter Wolfe The Twilight Zone explores the possibilities inhering in the ordinary. A Twilight Zone episode can move us by being poignant and intimate, rambunctious or thought provoking. It can be orchestrated as a set of intertwined plot developments or as a serial progression. But whether it takes place on an asteroid, in a city pool room, or in the backwo... more »ods, 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. Deservedly celebrated as a pioneer in TV science fiction, he also writes 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. Peter Wolfe's new book, a full-length thematic, artistic, and technical analysis of The Twilight Zone, justifies the popular claim that this weekly series, which first ran on CBS-TV between 1959 and 1964, remains one of the most influential, admired shows of its kind in television history.« less