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  title info:
    title: Monsters on Maple Street
    sub title: the Twilight Zone and the postwar American dream
  name:
    name part: Brokaw, David J.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: kyu
    date issued: 2023
    copyright date: 2023
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: vii, 267 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: Post-World War II America has often been mythologized by successive generations as an exceptional period of prosperity and comfort. At a time when the Cold War was understood to be a battle of ideas as much as military prowess, the entertainment business relied heavily on subtle psychological marketing to promote the idea of the American Dream. The media of the 1950s and 1960s promoted an idealized version of American life sustained by the nuclear family and bolstered by a booming consumer economy. The seemingly wholesome and simple lifestyles portrayed on television screens, however, belied a torrent of social, economic and political struggles occurring at the time. By the late 1950s, television writers were increasingly constrained to distract audiences from confronting counternarratives to the Dream. Among the programs that railed against this trend was Rod Serling's television masterpiece The Twilight Zone. Now considered an enduring classic, the allegorical nature of the show provides a window into the many overlooked issues that plagued Cold War America. In Monsters on Maple Street: The Twilight Zone and the Postwar American Dream, David J. Brokaw describes how the show reframed popular portrayals of white American wish fulfillments as nightmares, rather than dreams. Brokaw's close reading of the show's sociopolitical dimensions examines how the series' creators successfully utilized science fiction, horror and fantasy to challenge conventional thinking, and avoid having their work censored, around topics such as sexuality, technology, war, labor and the workplace and white supremacy. In doing so, Brokaw helps us understand how the series exposed the underbelly of the American Dream and left indelible impressions in the minds of its viewers for decades to come.
  table of contents: A haunting hatred: living in the shadows of White supremacy -- Fighting a war, combating a myth: how the horrors of World War II shaped The Twilight Zone -- Cold War space and technology: a fertile frontier or a new human wasteland -- Duck, cover, and accuse: Cold War paranoia remakes the American landscape -- Cold War childhood: containment or entanglement? -- White-collar weariness: the planned obsolescence of selfhood in postwar America's marketplace -- Conclusion: "These things cannot be confined to The Twilight Zone.
  note: David J. Brokaw.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    title info:
      title: Twilight zone (Television program : 1959-1964)
  subject:
    topic: Television programs
    topic: Social aspects
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
  classification: PN1992.77.T87 B7625 2023
  classification: 791.45/72
  identifier: 9780813197845
  identifier: 0813197848
  identifier: 9780813197852
  identifier: 9780813197869
  identifier: 9780813199276
  identifier: 0813199271
  identifier: 2022060186
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 230203
    record change date: 20231006203416.9
    record identifier: in00004745777