| In the Zone: The Twilight World of Rod Serling Contributor(s): Wolfe, Peter (Author) |
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ISBN: 0879727292 ISBN-13: 9780879727291 Publisher: Popular Press OUR PRICE: $39.55 Product Type: Hardcover Published: November 2003 Annotation: 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 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. 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Television - History & Criticism - Performing Arts | Television - Screenwriting |
| Dewey: 791.457 |
| LCCN: 96047540 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.24" W x 9.33" (1.20 lbs) 228 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In 1833 Alexander Pushkin began to explore the topic of madness, a subject little explored in Russian literature before his time. The works he produced on the theme are three of his greatest masterpieces: the prose novella The Queen of Spades, the narrative poem The Bronze Horseman, and the lyric "God Grant That I Not Lose My Mind." Gary Rosenshield presents a new interpretation of Pushkin's genius through an examination of his various representations of madness. |