Carroll / Hunt Philosophy in The Twilight Zone

1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-1-4443-1036-8
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 208 Seiten, E-Book

Utilizing a series of essays examining the broad philosophicalconcepts embedded in Rod Serling's series, The TwilightZone, Philosophy in The Twilight Zone provides aplatform for further philosophical discussion.
* Features essays by eminent contemporary philosophers concerningthe over-arching themes in The Twilight Zone, as well asin-depth discussions of particular episodes
* Fuses popular cult entertainment with classical philosophicalperspectives
* Acts as a guide to unearthing larger questions - from humannature to the nature of reality and beyond - posed in theseries
* Includes substantial critical and biographical information onseries creator Rob Serling

Autoren/Hrsg.

Carroll, Noël

Hunt, Lester H.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Lester H. Hunt
1. "And Now, Rod Serling, Creator of The TwilightZone": The Author as Auteur: Lester H.Hunt
2. Tales of Dread in The Twilight Zone: A Contribution toNarratology: Noël Carroll
3. Frame Shifters: Surprise Endings and Spectator Imagination inThe Twilight Zone: Carl Plantinga
4. The Treachery of the Commonplace: Mary Sirridge
5. Where is the Twilight Zone?: Richard Hanley
6. Existentialism and Searching for an Exit: Susan L.Feagin
7. Through the Twilight Zone of Nonbeing: Two Exemplars of Racein Serling's Classic Series: Lewis R. Gordon
8. Blending Fiction and Reality: "The Odyssey of Flight33": Thomas E. Wartenberg
9. Epistemology at 20,000 Feet: Sheila Lintott
10. Rationality and Choice in "Nick of Time":Aeon J. Skoble
11. "The Little People": Power and the Worshipable:Aaron Smuts
12. Nothing in the Dark: Deprivation, Death, and the Good Life:James S. Taylor
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Noël Carroll is Distinguished Professor of Philosophyat the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, a formerPresident of the American Society for Aesthetics, and a recipientof the Guggenheim Fellowship. He has published numerous booksincluding the Philosophy of Horror (1990) and APhilosophy of Mass Art (1999). He has also worked as ajournalist and has written five documentary pictures.
Lester H. Hunt is Professor of Philosophy at theUniversity of Wisconsin, Madison. He has also taught atCarnegie-Mellon University, the University of Pittsburgh, and TheJohn Hopkins University. He has written extensively on ethics,political philosophy, and the aesthetics of film, and is the authorof Nietzsche and the Origins of Virtue (1990) andCharacter and Culture (1998). He is currently working on abook on anarchy and the justification of the state.