The twilight man : Rod Serling and the birth of television
(2019)

Nonfiction

Book

Call Numbers:
GN/NONFICTION/SERLING,R

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Graphic novels GN/NONFICTION/SERLING,R Available

Details

PUBLISHED
Los Angeles, CA : Humanoids, Inc., 2019
DESCRIPTION

176 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 26 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9781643375717, 1643375717 :, 1643375717, 9781643375717
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

An illustrated biographical tale that follows Hollywood revolutionary Rod Serling's rise to fame in the Golden Age of Television, and his descent into his personal Twilight Zone. We recognize Rod Serling as our sharply dressed, cigarette-smoking tour guide of The Twilight Zone, but the entertainment business once regarded him as the "Angry Young Man" of Television. Before he became the revered master of science fiction, Rod Serling was a just a writer who had to fight to make his voice heard. He vehemently challenged the networks and viewership alike to expand their minds and standards--rejecting notions of censorship, racism and war. But it wasn't until he began to write about real world enemies in the guise of aliens and monsters that people lent their ears. In doing so, he pushed the television industry to the edge of glory, and himself to the edge of sanity. Rod operated in a dimension beyond that of contemporary society, making him both a revolutionary and an outsider

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