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Book Title
Outer Limits
ISBN
9780814347454
Publication Year
2022
Series
TV Milestones Ser.
Type
Textbook
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Publication Name
Outer Limits
Author
Joanne Morreale
Item Length
7 in
Publisher
Wayne State University Press
Item Width
5 in
Number of Pages
144 Pages

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Provides a history and criticism of an important disrupting force in early science-fiction television programming. Joanne Morreale highlights the differences of The Outer Limits (ABC 1963-65) from typical programs on the air in the 1960s. Morreale argues that the show provides insight into changes in the television industry as writers turned to genre fiction-in this case, a hybrid of science fiction and horror-to provide veiled social commentary. The show illustrates the tension between networks who wanted mainstream entertainment and the independent writer-producers, Leslie Stevens and Joseph Stefano, who wanted to use the medium to challenge viewers. In five chapters, The Outer Limits makes a case for the show's deployment of gothic melodrama and science fiction tropes, unique televisual characteristics, and creative adaptation of any cultural sources to interrogate the relationship between humans and technology in a way that continues to influence contemporary debate in such shows as Star Trek , The X-Files , and Black Mirror . Underlying the arguments is the eerie notion of The Outer Limits as a disruptive force on television at the time, purposely making audiences uncomfortable. For example, in its iconic opening credit sequence a disembodied "Control Voice" claims to be taking over the television as images mimic signal interference. Other themes convey Cold War paranoia, ambivalence about the Kennedy era "New Frontier," and anxiety about the burgeoning military-industrial-governmental complex. The book points out that The Outer Limits presaged what came to be known as "quality" television. While most episodes followed the lowbrow tradition of televised science fiction by adapting previously published stories and films, the series elevated the genre by rearticulating it through themes and images drawn from myth, literature, and the art film. The Outer Limits is lucid yet accessible, well researched and argued, with enlightening discussions of specific episodes even as it gives attention to broader television history and theory. It will be of special interest to scholars and students of television and media studies, as well as fans of science fiction.

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Wayne State University Press
ISBN-10
0814347452
ISBN-13
9780814347454
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Author
Joanne Morreale
Publication Name
Outer Limits
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
2022
Series
TV Milestones Ser.
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
144 Pages

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Item Length
7 in
Item Width
5 in

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