ROD SERLING CONFERENCE: Celebrating 50 Years of the Twilight Zone
Venue: Ithaca College Campus
Location: Ithaca, New York, United States
Event Date/Time: Oct 02, 2009 | End Date/Time: Oct 03, 2009 |
Description
Rod Serling won an unprecedented six Emmy Awards… was the first writer honored with the Peabody Award… and was a pioneer in the “Golden Days of Television.†By the time The Twilight Zone premiered on October 2, 1959 -- nearly 100 of Serling’s scripts had been produced.
This conference will examine episodes of this ground-breaking series as well as Serling’s other work -- which includes movie screenplays such as “Planet of the Apes.â€
CONFERENCE SESSIONS:
• War and Remembrance: Examining the Impact of War on Rod Serling’s Life and Work
Tony Albarella
• Stark Humanity: Serling’s “Requiem for a Heavyweightâ€
Barbara Audet
• What Goes Around: Comeuppance and Schadenfreude in The Twilight Zone
Jeffrey J. Bianchine
• From Serling to Simpson
Diana DePasquale
• Early Attempts at Science-Fiction and Fantasy
Amy E. Boyle Johnston
• Living in a Twilight Reality: Rod Serling, Television, and Cold War America
James Jones
• Don’t Assume the Current Norm Shall Be Your Norm
John Keshishoglou
• “It’s a Cookbook!†Gender Anxieties in The Twilight Zone’s “To Serve Manâ€
Adam Knee
• Adapting The Twilight Zone to Graphic Novel
Mark Kneece
• How Parenting Is Represented in The Twilight Zone
Douglas C. MacLeod Jr.
• Speak Your Mind
Patricia Dawn MacLeod
• Underneath the Mask: Using Rod Serling’s “Eye of the Beholder†to Teach about Appearance versus Reality
Timothy J. Madigan
• The Symbiosis of Rod Serling and Charles Beaumont
Keith Muchowski
• Surviving The Twilight Zone: An Alternate Reality with Alternate Rules
Samuel B. Prime and Dave Stinton-Czuprynski
• Divining Rod: Illumination and the Twilight Zone Experience
Richard Rees
• Second Chances: Rod Serling, Redrafting, and Adaptation
Andrew T. Smith
• Time Enough at Last
Ed Uszynski
• The Twilight Zone on Videotape: Is the Medium the Message?
Gordon C. Webb
• Scriptwriting Competition Winners Panel
Excerpts from this year's winning scripts will be read and discussed by some of the winning writers and members of the judge's panel.