Twilight

Hearing Rod Sterling’s comments were extremely helpful. After watching my first episode of the Twilight Zone with my Dad a few years ago, I always wondered where the ideas for The Twilight Zone spawned. Thus, when the students asked the question, “Where do ideas come from?” I was delighted to hear Sterling’s answer. His answer was quite profound. Sterling simply answered that ideas come from “one’s experiences.” I thoroughly enjoyed how he showed that story is personal and comes from the…

It explores the dark consequences that result from human use of technology. In an article written for the New York Times, Brooker explains how his series “was inspired indirectly, by The Twilight Zone, Rod Serling’s hugely entertaining TV series of the late 50s and early 60s.” Many critics consider The Twilight Zone to be the most significant Sci-Fi television program of its time (Booker 8). It laid the groundwork for…

In the Twilight Zone episode “The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street", the neighbors on Maple Street were out performing their everyday duties when suddenly an unknown flew across the sky above. Based on rumors, the object was supposed to be some type of foreign media from out of space. After the strange object 's appearance, weird things started happening on Maple Street: several homes were without electricity, car engines would no longer start, and several other unusual activities were observed.…

TV Shows Analysis: American Horror Story and the Twilight Zone Linh Hua Anderson University Televisions came to the United States during the late 1940s, but they did not officially bloom until the 1950s. They were able to dominate Americans due to their diversity of programs: variety shows, anthology shows, sitcom shows, etc. In the current time, when one mentions anthology, people would immediately think about The Twilight Zone, which runs in the late fifties and sixties, and…

feministic and post-feministic controversy veiled in today’s media, specifically in the movie ‘Twilight’ directed by Catherine Hardwicke. The two authors express their concerns about the film by addressing the film itself, the teachings of popular culture, post-feminism, and sexualized violence. Even though the article “Vampires and Vixens” did contradict itself several times by showing feministic themes in Twilight and did not provide a plan to resolve Hollywood’s feministic issues, it greatly…

classic story for movies from generation to generation. In this era, Twilight puts a sci-fi twist in the traditional teenage love story which makes it one of the first of its kind to shift the popular teenage movie culture. Twilight has inspired many movies and shows including, “The Vampire Diaries”, “Teen Wolf”, “Warm Bodies”, etc. This film can be classified as a Sci Fi & Fantasy, Mystery & Suspense, Romance, Thriller. Notably, Twilight is about a teenage main character, Bella, who moved from…

Vampire,” Karen Backstein explains how there is a metamorphism of vampires; they went from being scary to dreamy. With her credible background of having a Ph.D. in cinematic studies, she does a wonderful job convincing her audience that movies like Twilight and popular TV shows like True Blood, Vampire Diaries, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer have changed the “normal” vampire-based storyline. Backstein’s article argues the appeal…

article, November 19,2009, about twilight titled, “Girls Just Wanna Have Fangs: the unwarranted backlash against fans of the world's most popular vampire-romance series.” The purpose of this work is to inform the reader on the unwarranted backlash on fans of the twilight series. Doyle go all over the place when it comes to her topics. She begins to talk about the weaknesses, next she goes on to the sales of the twilight series, then she goes to the fans of twilight, and lastly about teen girls…

have grown up so much physically-much like all do- since eighth grade. My old favorite shoes no longer fit, sadly XS is no longer my trademark size and I no longer have to strain myself to reach my top shelf that used to hold precious copies of the Twilight saga. Physically, I…

Bullen, Elizabeth, Kim Toffoletti, and Liz Parsons. “Doing What Your Big Sister Does: Sex, Postfeminism, and the YA Chick Lit Series.” Gender and Education, vol. 23, no. 4, 2011, pp. 497-511. Bullen, Toffoletti, and Parsons’ article explores postfeminism as represented within popular young adult literature. This is significant because young adult books influence their readers at a critical point in their identity development. These novels are another aspect of the media that “…inducts girls into…