Rod Serling’s pioneering series TheTwilight Zone (1959 to 1964) is remembered for its surprise twist endings and pervadi
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Table of contents :
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Twilight Zone Harbingers
Golden Age Television
Serling as Auteur
Anthology Films
Anthology Television Series
Chapter 2: Irony’s Philosophical Legacy
Socratic Irony
Modernist Irony
Postmodernist Irony
Rorty’s Ironist Utopia
Chapter 3: Technological Irony
Robotic Irony
Other Future Technologies
Haunted Technologies
Chapter 4: Invasive Irony
Space Invaders as Malevolent
Space Invaders as Benevolent
Space Invaders as Astronauts
Chapter 5: Martial Irony
Irony in WWII
Irony in Older Wars
Martial Irony in Civilian Contexts
Irony in Future Wars
Chapter 6: Sociopolitical Irony
Irony in American Politics
Irony in Socialization
Chapter 7: Domestic Irony
Irony in Courtship
Irony in Marriage
Irony in Family
Conclusion
Videography
Bibliography