This study seeks to understand the form of cinematic space referred to as 'the landscape of the mind, ' in which natural, outdoor settings serve as outward manifestations of characters' inner subjective states

Rod Serling's pioneering series The Twilight Zone (1959 to 1964) is remembered for its surprise twist endings and pervading sense of irony.While other American television series of the time also experimented with ironic surprises, none depended on these as much as Serling's. However, irony was not used merely as a structural device--Serling and his writers used it as a provocative means by which to comment on the cultural landscape of the time. Irony in The Twilight Zone: How the Series Critiqued Postwar American Culture explores the multiple types of irony--such as technological, invasive,...

This study seeks to understand the form of cinematic space referred to as 'the landscape of the mind, ' in which natural, outdoor settings serve as outward manifestations of characters' inner subjective states