Rod Serling

Wadi 1 Asmaa Wadi Com 320: History of Film Professor Neuendorfer October 10, 2015 Rod Serling and JJ Abrams Expressing a deep social conscience in nearly every piece he?s worked on, Rod Serling?s legacy continues to grow. His career expands over writing and producing in television and theatre to teaching. Most known for The Twilight Zone, Serling has won the most amount of Emmy awards for dramatic writing than anyone in history. Serling took an interest in film around the age of six, acting out dialogue from magazines and films he had seen. His family recalls many occasions where he would speak whether someone responded to him or not. Testing out this theory, his family travelled two hours in a car, all silent except young Rod?s nonstop…

In the screenplay, the story takes place in Maple street. In one peaceful afternoon undefined objects crossed the sky. Suddenly, all the electricity shut down. When electronics stop working, the neighbors came out from their houses with panic. They hurry to go out to blame someone. When they couldn’t find answer they became paranoia. In this screenplay,the author gives us message that, when there is straits human nature always try to scapegoat to each other and act without thinking. Likewise,…

The Twilight Zone The teleplay “The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street,” by Rod Serling, is both similar and different to the TV episode of the same title which first aired on March 4th, 1960. Both have the same characters, such as Steve, Don, and Charlie, and both take place in a mysterious place called “The Twilight Zone,” on a classic American street in the fifties and sixties. Both feature a lot the same lines, and the camera moves in a similar way for most of both the teleplay and the TV…

People live their lives as if they are being true to themselves, but often many would agree that it is a part of human nature to attempt to cover up our darker sides. Often times, however, our “masks” are removed, and we are ultimately exposed for who we really are. Rod Serling and Edgar Allen Poe both capture the ghastly realization of the fact people wear masks more often the believed. Through the vast contrast of the characters, settings and point of view these two tales go into great depth…

drum of the motor, and you could smell the pungent odor of gasoline being burned. We had been gliding and bouncing over the dark murkey water for what felt like an eternity before I asked to my grandfather, “Are we there yet.” He replied with a firm “no, but we are getting close.” After that is starting to look out over the water, which the sun had been reflecting its rays of off it, and making it glisten like glitter. For about maybe 10 minutes later the boat lurched to halt in the water…

which include: the receptive field size, distribution of photoreceptors and illumination. For an individual to view an object, they fixate and place the image of the object on the most sensitive part of the retina, fovea centralis to produce detailed vision. As shown in Figure 2, the fovea has a high number of cone receptors which produce high visual acuity and allows the individual to identify colour and light. A high visual acuity is due “to the 1:1 connection of a cone cell to bipolar cell to…

Faith can be a multi-faceted word. It can have many different meanings to different people. Webster’s dictionary defines faith as complete trust or confidence in someone or something. Some people are dying because of their faith, such as, in the Middle East. Countless are being tortured for their belief in God. While others are severely criticized for showing any signs of their faith, for instance, the football player Tim Tebow. He prayed before, during, and after his games and the media was…

1. Dyer is literally doing what his title expresses and is attempting to defend disco from those who accuse it as a capitalist form of music. He also lists the positive aspects of disco, not only the music but also the culture surrounding it. Through the ‘debunking’ of capitalism and almost humanizing and describing the characteristics of disco that relate it to other forms of music, including those that oppose the nature of disco, and to human experience, including queer movements, he makes his…

Clan, also displays aspects of indoctrination, groupthink, and obedience. In 1996, a 16 year old boy identified as Rod Ferrell created the Vampire Clan, as he believed he himself was a 500 year old Vampire, named Vesago (ViralNova, 1). The Vampire Clan was first seen as a normal group of gothic teenagers. But, the gothic group quickly became a notorious cult when Heather Wendorf, a long time friend of Rod Ferrell, began complaining about her home life being "Hell"(ViralNova, 1). Ferrell decided…

always the type of guy who wasn’t afraid of hunting. When I was about 10, my brother Josh and I were invited to go fishing with him. I had never gone fishing before. I had no clue how to do it, and I was afraid of hurting the fish. “ I think you’ll have a lot of fun fishing. You have to be patient while fishing, though.” Grandpop told us while we got situated in the car. I was still nervous, though, but I knew if Grandpop said it was fun, it would be. After a few minutes, we arrived at the park.…