WEDNESDAY, JULY 15 @ 5:30pm EST:
DECONSTRUCTING THE TWILIGHT ZONE #7: “The After Hours” webinar via NY Adventure Club!
Rod Serling’s immortal television series The Twilight Zone used the science fiction, fantasy, and horror genres to tell incisive stories that dealt with the social and societal issues of its time. In doing so, Serling and Co. created some of the most indelible half-hours of filmed television drama ever made.
One of those half-hours was The Twilight Zone season one episode, “The After Hours,” one of Serling’s most accessible Twilight Zone episodes—for who among the American generations who’ve grown up in and around shopping malls has never been afraid of being locked in a department store at night? And of the store’s mannequins somehow coming to life? In its June 2003 issue,Barbie Bazaar noted: “The reason that The Twilight Zone still amazes us is the wonder that underlies episodes like ‘The After Hours,’ that recall childhood fantasies of dolls and toys coming to life when no one is watching.” By tapping into such deep-seated American neuroses, Serling mirrored the anxieties and apprehensions of his audience, as this excerpt from the episode’s closing narration testifies: “Just how ‘normal’ are we? Just who are the people we nod our hellos to as we pass on the street?”
So join New York Adventure Club and pop culture historian Arlen Schumer (author/designer, Visions from The Twilight Zone and The Five Themes of The Twilight Zone) as he deconstructs “The After Hours” via discussion and dissemination of clips from the episode, along with stills, behind-the-scenes material, and collateral images and ideas culled from both the episode’s time, and our time, so that even the most ardent aficionados of The Twilight Zone will feel as if they’ve seen “The After Hours” for the first time!
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