The Twilight Zone and philosophy : a dangerous dimension to visit / edited by Heather L. Rivera and Alexander E. Hooke.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rivera, Heather L., editor, writer of supplementary textual content.

Hooke, Alexander E., 1952- editor, author, writer of supplementary textual content.

Series:

Popular culture and philosophy ; v. 121.

Popular culture and philosophy ; volume 121

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Twilight zone (Television program : 1959-1964).

Philosophy.

Physical Description:

xii, 247 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : Open Court, [2019]

Summary:

"Twilight Zone and Philosophy attempts to bring the insights and paradoxes of Rod Serling's project to contemporary audiences through a variety of philosophical perspectives"--Publisher.

Contents:

Lost in time / Elizabeth Rard

Where is the Twilight Zone? / Frank Scalambrino

The short-sightedness of Henry Bemis / Alan Pichanick

Faces from another dimension / Alexander E. Hooke

True love or artificial love? / Charles Klayman

In a mirror is our image / John V. Karavitis

Loss of memory, loss of me? / Chris Lay

What are you hearing? / Reba A. Wissner

Machines who care / Dennis M. Weiss

Memories are made of this / Clara Nisley

The truth about lying / Don Fallis

The Twilight Zone on our doorstep / Tim Jones

No place like a non-place / Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns, Juan Ignacio Juvé, and Emiliano Aguilar

The science of alternate realities / David Morgan

The twists and turns of second chances / John V. Karavitis

The pleasures of the twist / Stephen Scales

A shadowland called the Twilight Zone / Trip McCrossin

War means fighting and fighting includes philosophizing / Robert S. Vuckovich

Looking like number 12 / Larry Alan Busk

The totalitarian zone

John Altmann

That unnamed zone we call freedom / Alexander E. Hooke.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-235) and index.

ISBN:

0812699890

9780812699890

OCLC:

1022988468