The Twilight Zone
“SCHUMER’S THESIS on The Twilight Zonetranscends pop culture and brushes the underbelly of high art.”
—“The Synergy of Art and The Twilight Zone,” The New York Times
“SCHUMER’S WORKS on Rod Serling and The Twilight Zone are a cut above the rest, full of passion and erudition.”
— Mark Burman, Producer, BBC Radio
Pop culture historian Arlen Schumer (author/designer, Visions from The Twilight Zone and The Silver Age of Comic Book Art) traces The Twilight Zone’s roots in 20th Century surrealism, and its influence on psychedelia, television, film, modern art and popular culture, in a unique multimedia presentation that combines the words, images, and music of the legendary television series.
Filmed at The Triad Theater, New York, October 2, 2019.
Arlen Schumer’s “Sound & Vision” is a 45-minute mashup of The Twilight Zone’s dialogue, narration and music soundtracks.
October 2, 2024 is the 65th Anniversary off the legendary TV series The Twilight Zone—and the publication date of a brand-new book about the series that examines it in a brand-new way, The Five Themes of The Twilight Zone, a collection of incisive essays on the most classic episodes of the show, episodes crafted by Serling and many other great writers, directors, and actors of different sensibilities, but ultimately united under one—Serling’s—vision.
With a Foreword by Serling’s daughter, author Anne Serling, The Five Themes of The Twilight Zone is organized into five themes that best represent the depth and breadth of The Twilight Zone. The equally expansive essays, written (and the book designed) by Twilight Zone scholar and pop culture historian Arlen Schumer (writer/designer, Visions from The Twilight Zone and The Silver Age of Comic Book Art), are as entertaining as they are enlightening, while the book’s handsome design beautifully mirrors the black and white television aesthetic of The Twilight Zone itself.
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CLICK on the graphics below to go to Arlen’s articles on The Twilight Zone:
