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Jason William Karpf

Where Is Everybody? The Twilight Zone’s First Episode Tackled Atomic Anxieties—Den of Geek

Excellent essay on Twilight Zone ushering ‘60s zeitgeist in 1959 debut.

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Den of Geek · Where Is Everybody? The Twilight Zone's First Episode Tackled Atomic AnxietiesIn this guest essay, pop culture historian Arlen Schumer reveals how The Twilight Zone's first episode ushered America into the transformative '60s.
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Rod Serling, creator of "The Twilight Zone," believed that the arts were a vehicle for social criticism. While his famous show is now thought of as a sci-fi and fantasy anthology, it was also a way for Serling and others to critique the United States' policies. "The late 1950s and early 1960s were a time of lingering McCarthyism, Cold War paranoia, rampant racism, and relentless pressure to conform to a middle American, white, heterosexual, three-kids-and-a-suburban-house idea of normalcy," writes Matt Zoller Seitz of Roger Ebert. Here's his tribute to Serling's creative courage.

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Image from "The Eye of the Beholder," an episode of the original "The Twilight Zone" -- the imprisoned victim of a series of plastic surgery experiments to make her face conform to the social norms is restrained by her surgeon, a piglike humanoid
Roger Ebert · The Metaphor Years: Writing Lessons from "The Twilight Zone" | Features | Roger EbertA look back at a show that never shied away from commenting on the world around it.
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Wm.son

#Quotes #Prejudice #Conquest #Men #Weapons #RodSerling

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs, and explosions, and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices, to be found only in the minds of men. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy; and a thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all of its own for the children, and the children yet unborn. -Rod Serling, writer of the science fiction TV series "The Twilight Zone" (25 Dec 1924-1975)

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Rod Serling, creator of "The Twilight Zone," spent three years as a paratrooper during WWII, and was awarded both a Bronze Star and a Purple Heart. He later said that his writing career helped him get the war "out of his gut." Shortly after he returned from the Philippines, where he was stationed, he wrote "First Squad, First Platoon," a short story which is being published for the first time today in The Strand. NPR spoke to his daughter, Jodi and his biographer, Nicholas Parisi, about the story and how it's connected to Serling's real experiences. To read "First Squad, First Platoon," you'll need to buy the current issue of The Strand or subscribe to the magazine.

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"Serling’s story, First Squad, First Platoon, concerns the experiences of American paratroopers in the Philippines towards the end of the war. Serling fought the Japanese there with the 511th Airborne, surviving, as Gulli says in his editorial, 'some of the most intense combat of the entire conflict.' "
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The Guardian · Story by Rod Serling, Twilight Zone creator, published after 70 yearsBy Martin Pengelly
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