The Many Lives of "The Twilight Zone": Essays on the Television and Film Franchise

Dedication
Acknowledgments
Table of Contents
Preface • Ron Riekki
Submitted for Your Approval: A Host and His Series and Their Remarkable Afterlives—An Introduction • Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr.
Part I. A Dimension of Mind: Ideas, Philosophy, and the Original Series
	Middle Ground: The Twilight Zone as Social Criticism • Valerie L. Guyant
	Social Liberalism and Orthodox Theology: Ideas of God in The Twilight Zone • Brandon R. Grafius
	Rod Serling and the Ambiguity of Being • Kevin Bolinger
	The Twilight of Humanism • Alexander E. Hooke
	The Strange Zone of Speculative Rhetoric • Jimmy Butts
	Serling and the Bomb: The Twilight Zone’s Nuclear Landscape • Molly A. Schneider
	The Twilight Zone Goes to War! • Elsa M. Carruthers and Paul Popiel
Part II. “Remember that one episode?”
	From Demonic “Opie” to Latchkey Kid: The Narrative/Character Shifts in “It’s a Good Life” from Television to Film • Erin Giannini
	“Stopover in a Quiet Town,” the Horror Film, and Dread of the Child • Dawn Keetley
	Grief, Loss, and the Unknown: The Hauntological Phantasm of Richard Matheson’s The Twilight Zone • Melissa A. Kaufler
	“It’s simply out of my hands”: Human Nature as Illustrated in The Twilight Zone’s “The Shelter” • Michael Meyerhofer
Part III. The Twilight Zone in the Eighties
	Twilight Zone: The Meta: Interior and Epiphenomenal Elements That Frame Twilight Zone: The Movie • Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr.
	Twilight of the Vampires: The Twilight Zone, Vampires, America, and War • Simon Bacon
	If You Dream It, They Will Film It • Paul Chitlik
	My “If She Dies” Diary: A Writer’s Personal Journey into The Twilight Zone • David Bennett Carren
Part IV. Comparative Zones
	Strange Realities: Twilight Zone–sploitation in Encounter with the Unknown • Nicholas Diak
	Get Out of The Twilight Zone: The Original TV Series and Newest Reboot Juxtaposed • David Melbye
Part V. Staging the Zone
	From Curator to Co-Author: Examining the Narrative and Political Choices in Anne Washburn’s Stage Adaptation of The Twilight Zone • William C. Boles
	A Twilight Zone of Our Own: Production Is Storytelling • Steve Krahnke and Michael Aronson
About the Contributors
Index