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Author : Koren Shadmi
Publisher : Humanoids, Inc.
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-08
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781643378824
A biographical tale that follows Hollywood revolutionary Rod Serling's rise to fame in the Golden Age of Television, and his descent into his own personal Twilight Zone.
Author : Anne Serling
Publisher : Kensington Publishing Corp.
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780806536743
"A haunting and beautifully written memoir about the creator of The Twilight Zone." --Robert Redford "Beautifully written. . .I laughed and I cried. I plan to read it again once I catch my breath." --Carol Burnett In this intimate, lyrical memoir about her iconic father, Anne Serling reveals the fun-loving dad and family man behind the imposing figure the public saw hosting The Twilight Zone each week. After his unexpected, early death, Anne, just 20, was left stunned. But through talking to his friends, poring over old correspondence, and recording her childhood memories, Anne not only found solace, but gained a deeper understanding of this remarkable man. Now she shares her discoveries, along with personal photos, revealing letters, and scenes of his childhood, war years, and their family's time together. A tribute to Rod Serling's legacy as a visionary, storyteller, and humanist, As I Knew Him is also a moving testament to the love between fathers and daughters. "A tender, thoughtful and very personal portrait of American genius Rod Serling." --Alice Hoffman "Richly told. . .a haunting memoir about grief, creativity, and a father-daughter bond as memorable and magical as any Twilight Zone episode." --Caroline Leavitt "Filled with anecdotes and self-reflection. . .Serling still casts an outsized shadow." --Variety "Lush memories of a remarkable father and adept analysis of his work." --Kirkus Reviews
Author : Koren Shadmi
Publisher : Life Drawn
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2023-04-04
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 1643378694
A biographical tale that follows Hollywood revolutionary Rod Serling's rise to fame in the Golden Age of Television, and his descent into his own personal Twilight Zone. We recognize him 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.
Author : Liz Brown
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780698184732
"Twilight Man is biography, romance, and nonfiction mystery, carrying with it the bite of fiction." -- Los Angeles Review of Books “In Twilight Man, Liz Brown uncovers a noir fairytale, a new glimpse into the opulent Gilded Age empire of the Clark family.” —Bill Dedman, co-author of The New York Times bestseller Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune The unbelievable true story of Harrison Post--the enigmatic lover of one of the richest men in 1920s Hollywood--and the battle for a family fortune. In the booming 1920s, William Andrews Clark Jr. was one of the richest, most respected men in Los Angeles. The son of the mining tycoon known as "The Copper King of Montana," Clark launched the Los Angeles Philharmonic and helped create the Hollywood Bowl. He was also a man with secrets, including a lover named Harrison Post. A former salesclerk, Post enjoyed a lavish existence among Hollywood elites, but the men's money--and their homosexuality--made them targets, for the district attorney, their employees and, in Post's case, his own family. When Clark died suddenly, Harrison Post inherited a substantial fortune--and a wealth of trouble. From Prohibition-era Hollywood to Nazi prison camps to Mexico City nightclubs, Twilight Man tells the story of an illicit love and the battle over a family estate that would destroy one man's life. Harrison Post was forgotten for decades, but after a chance encounter with his portrait, Liz Brown, Clark's great-grandniece, set out to learn his story. Twilight Man is more than just a biography. It is an exploration of how families shape their own legacies, and the lengths they will go in order to do so.
Author : Gordon F. Sander
Publisher : Dutton Adult
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015029172577
"For [Serling's] definitive biography, Gordon F. Sander retraces the odyssey of the man who won more Emmys than any other writer in TV history. Drawing on interviews with over two hundred of Serling's family members, friends, and closest associates ... this landmark book gives us a fascinating look into Serling's world ..."--Cover.
Author : Nicholas Parisi
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 643 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781496819437
Long before anyone had heard of alien cookbooks, gremlins on the wings of airplanes, or places where pig-faced people are considered beautiful, Rod Serling was the most prestigious writer in American television. As creator, host, and primary writer for The Twilight Zone, Serling became something more: an American icon. When Serling died in 1975, at the age of fifty, he was the most honored, most outspoken, most recognizable, and likely the most prolific writer in television history. Though best known for The Twilight Zone, Serling wrote over 250 scripts for film and television and won an unmatched six Emmy Awards for dramatic writing for four different series. His filmography includes the acclaimed political thriller Seven Days in May and cowriting the original Planet of the Apes. In great detail and including never-published insights drawn directly from Serling’s personal correspondence, unpublished writings, speeches, and unproduced scripts, Nicholas Parisi explores Serling’s entire, massive body of work. With a foreword by Serling’s daughter, Anne Serling, Rod Serling: His Life, Work, and Imagination is part biography, part videography, and part critical analysis. It is a painstakingly researched look at all of Serling’s work—in and out of The Twilight Zone.
Author : Joel Engel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1623061229
This landmark first biography of Rod Serling offers fascinating insights into his life, from the nearly idyllic childhood that he could never recapture to the haunting World War II experiences that informed his imagination and his sudden emergence as one of television's Golden Age luminaries, responsible for shaping the medium itself.Last Stop, The Twilight Zone paints a startling picture of the complex, unhappy man beneath Serling's gregarious yet suave public persona. Despite receiving critical and popular acclaim, Serling was doubtful of his own talent, compulsively accepting nearly any job offered, from writing to pitching products. Prolific by any measure, he felt imprisoned by his most famous creation, The Twilight Zone. Here is the Rod Serling we never knew, the man whose success overshadowed his ambitions and, eventually, his life-a life that ended long before it should have.
Author : Koren Shadmi
Publisher : Humanoids, Inc.
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-28
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781643376615
A biography chronicling the tumultuous personal and professional life of horror icon Bela Lugosi.
Author : Koren Shadmi
Publisher : IDW Publishing
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-11
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781684069330
Bionic is a coming-of-age tale for the digital generation, taking place in the near future. It’s the story of Victor, a geeky teenager on a hopeless quest to win the love of the gorgeous Patricia—but when she returns from a horrible accident with astonishing new robotic parts, both their lives will be changed forever. Koren Shadmi (Highwayman, The Twilight Man: Rod Serling and the Birth of Television) presents a hypnotically illustrated story of warm flesh and cold metal. It’s the story of a love that was never meant to be, of overwhelming emotions, trauma, rebellion, loss of innocence, and the fear that wanting something may not be enough.
Author : Rod Serling
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Horror tales, American
ISBN : OCLC:1036876130
Author : Stewart T. Stanyard
Publisher : ECW Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781550227444
A visually stunning backstage glimpse through time and space into the history and making of Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone. This is an invitation to explore a portion of the show's archives: over 300 original behind-the-scenes production stills taken during filming, accompanied by insightful captions, rare documents and interviews with 40 producers, directors, writers and actors who worked on the series including Bill Murray and Earl Hammer, Jr. With a foreword by Neil Gaiman.
Author : Joel Engel
Publisher : McGraw-Hill/Contemporary
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015015526612
Tells the intriguing story of the life of the man who created "The Twilight Zone," won six Emmys and a Peabody Award, yet was a tormented man who doubted his writing ability.
Author : David Melbye
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781442260320
Rod Serling’s pioneering series TheTwilight Zone (1959 to 1964) is remembered for its surprise twist endings and pervading sense of irony.While other American television series of the time also experimented with ironic surprises, none depended on these as much as Serling’s. However, irony was not used merely as a structural device—Serling and his writers used it as a provocative means by which to comment on the cultural landscape of the time. Irony in The Twilight Zone: How the Series Critiqued Postwar American Culture explores the multiple types of irony—such as technological, invasive, martial, sociopolitical, and domestic—that Serling, Richard Matheson, Charles Beaumont, and other contributors employed in the show. David Melbye explains how each kind of irony critiqued of a specific aspect of American culture and how all of them informed one another, creating a larger social commentary. This book also places the show’s use of irony in historical and philosophical contexts, connecting it to a rich cultural tradition reaching back to ancient Greece. The Twilight Zone endures because it uses irony to negotiate its definitively modernist moment of “high” social consciousness and “low” cultural escapism. With its richly detailed, frequently unexpected readings of episodes, Irony in The Twilight Zone offers scholars and fans a fresh and unique lens through which to view the classic series.
Author : Rod Serling
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Fantasy fiction, American
ISBN : OCLC:1342465028
Contains nineteen science-fiction stories by Rod Sterling, creator, producer, and host of the television series "The Twilight Zone."
Author : Rod Serling,Charles Beaumont,Richard Matheson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-05
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781786824011
Between light and shadow, science and superstition, fear and knowledge is a dimension of imagination. An area we call the Twilight Zone. Adapted by Anne Washburn (Mr Burns) and directed by Olivier Award-winner Richard Jones, this world premiere production of the acclaimed CBS Television Series The Twilight Zone lands on stage for the first time in its history. Or its present. Or its future. Stage magic and fantasy unite as the ordinary becomes extraordinary.