SOCIAL JUSTICE FROM THE TWILIGHT ZONE: ROD SERLING AS HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST

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dc.contributor.authorSpencer, Hugh A.D.
dc.date.accessioned2022-06-30T09:41:39Z
dc.date.available2022-06-30T09:41:39Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.description.abstractRod Serling achieved critical acclaim in the First Golden Age of Television writing realist teleplays that express a strong moral sense and social consciousness. With the decline of anthology drama at the close of the 1950s, Serling created The Twilight Zone, which would become a forum for telling relevant stories while circumventing commercial and bureaucratic interference. As a means of exploring Serling’s use of drama as a tool for social justice, this paper compares themes from The Twilight Zone and Night Gallery with charter and constitutional statements of human rights. The United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights is the moral template applied in this discussion. Serling saw drama as a political act and his commitment to social justice often extended to his activities off the page. The content and consequences of his 1968 speech at Moorpark College are cited as an important example of his real world political behavior. Keywords: Rod Serling, Twilight Zone, Night Gallery, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Science Fiction Television, Golden Age of Television, Television Censorshipen_US
dc.identifier.citationSpencer, H. (2018). Social justice from the Twilight Zone: Rod Serling as human rights activist. Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy. 5(1). http://journaldialogue.org/issues/v5-issue-1/social-justice-from-the-twilight-zone-rod-serling-as-human-rights-activist/en_US
dc.identifier.issn2378-2323
dc.identifier.issn2378-2331
dc.identifier.urihttp://journaldialogue.org/issues/v5-issue-1/social-justice-from-the-twilight-zone-rod-serling-as-human-rights-activist/
dc.identifier.urihttp://nur.nu.edu.kz/handle/123456789/6321
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherDialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogyen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesDialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy;Volume 5, Issue 1 — Visualizing Popular Culture: From Theater to the Graphic Novel
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dc.subjectType of access: Open Accessen_US
dc.titleSOCIAL JUSTICE FROM THE TWILIGHT ZONE: ROD SERLING AS HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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