The Road to Twilight Zone
Rod Serling and the 1950’s Television
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2316-7114.sig.2019.143849Keywords:
Rod Serling, television play, teleplays, censorship, television studies, Twilight ZoneAbstract
This article aims to present and to comment Rod Serling’s path as the author of live television plays in the 1950s, reconstituting the historical context in which this means of expression was developed, some of its most important authors and achievements, as well as Serling’s artistic and political intentions; in addition to his style from the narratological point of view, and the problems and restraints he faced, which led him to other area of television practice, the one related to the series Twilight Zone, in which he performed as creator, author, host and executive producer, since 1959.
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MARTY. Direção: Delbert Mann. Roteiro: Paddy Chayefsky. EUA, 1953, 52 min. DVD, New York: The Criterion Collection, p/b, 52 min, NTSC, 1981. (Disco 1 da coleção The Golden Age of Television).
PATTERNS. Direção: Fielder Cook. Roteiro: Rod Serling. EUA, 1955, 53 min. DVD, New York: The Criterion Collection, p/b, 53 min, NTSC, 1981. (Disco 1 da coleção The Golden Age of Television).
REQUIEM for a heavyweight. Direção: Ralph Nelson. Roteiro: Rod Serling. EUA, 1956, 73 min. DVD, New York: The Criterion Collection, p/b, NTSC, 1981. (Disco 2 da coleção The Golden Age of Television).
THE TWILIGH Zone: the complete definitive collection. EUA, 1959-64, 4.524 min. DVD, Chatsworth: Image Entertainment Inc., p/b, NTSC, 2006. (Caixa com as cinco temporadas da série).
TWELVE angry men. Direção: Franklin Schaffner. Roteiro: Reginald Rose. EUA, 1954, 51 min. DVD, New York: Koch Vision, p/b, NTSC, 2016. (Disco 5 da coleção Studio One Anthology).
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