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The End of Uncle Tom
1 THE END OF UNCLE TOM A woman, her body ripped vertically in half, introduces The End of Uncle Tom and the Grand Allegorical Tableau of Eva in Heaven from 1995 (figs.3 and 4), while a visual narra- tive with both life and death at stake undulates beyond the accusatory gesture of her pointed finger. An adult man raises his hands to the sky, begging for deliverance, and delivers a baby. A second man, obese and legless, stabs one child with his sword while joined at the pelvis with another. A trio of children play a dangerous game that involves a hatchet, a chopping block, a sharp stick, and a bucket. One child has left the group and is making her way, with rhythmic defecation, toward three adult women who are naked to the waist and nursing each other. A baby girl falls from the lap of one woman while reaching for her breast. With its references to scatology, infanticide, sodomy, pedophilia, and child neglect, this tableau is a troubling tribute to Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin—the sentimental, antislavery novel written in 1852. It is clearly not a straightfor- ward illustration, yet the title and explicit references to racialized and sexualized violence on an antebellum plantation leave little doubt that there is a significant relationship between the two works. Cut from black paper and adhered to white gallery walls, this scene is composed of figures set within a landscape and depicted in silhouette. The medium is particularly apt for this work, and for Walker’s project more broadly, for a number of reasons. -
American Papers 2017 ~ 2018
the American Papers 2017 ~ 2018 1 The American Papers 2 The American Papers Editor-in-Chief Clayton Finn Jasmine Mayfield Managing Editors Michael Paramo Jonathan Schreiber Jena Delgado-Sette Editorial Board Roxana Arevalo Barbara Tkach Michael Gandara Jesus Pelayo Layout Editor Bahar Tahamtani Faculty Advisor Dustin Abnet Copyright © 2018 The American Studies Student Association California State University, Fullerton. All rights reserved. ISSN 10598464 3 The American Papers 4 Professor Abnet would like to thank the editors for their hard work, camaraderie, and professionalism while preparing this edi- tion of The American Papers. Their willingness to give freely of their time—even over summer break—to add to this institution is very much appreciated. He also would like to commend the authors for their exceptional papers and good-natured responses to the editorial process. Michael Paramo, Jonathan Schreiber, and Jena Delgado-Sette deserve special recognition for their service as Managing Edi- tors as does editor Michael Gandara for his assistance securing funding from the InterClub Council. Together their efforts made the production of the 2017-2018 issue possible. Professor Abnet offers special thanks to Bahar Tahamtani for her beautiful work on the layout and design of this issue. Finally, he especially would like to thank Clayton Finn and Jasmine Mayfield for serving as this volume’s Editors in Chief. Their professionalism, hard work, kindness, and dedication to the success of The American Papers has been remarkable. 5 The American Papers Welcome to the 2017-2018 American Papers! First and foremost, the American Papers is a testament to the many faculty men- tors that have spent countless hours of their time to assist students at California State University, Fullerton (CSUF) in their personal academic development and in making this journal what it is today. -
Season 5 Article
N.B. IT IS RECOMMENDED THAT THE READER USE 2-PAGE VIEW (BOOK FORMAT WITH SCROLLING ENABLED) IN ACROBAT READER OR BROWSER. “EVEN’ING IT OUT – A NEW PERSPECTIVE ON THE LAST TWO YEARS OF “THE TWILIGHT ZONE” Television Series (minus ‘THE’)” A Study in Three Parts by Andrew Ramage © 2019, The Twilight Zone Museum. All rights reserved. Preface With some hesitation at CBS, Cayuga Productions continued Twilight Zone for what would be its last season, with a thirty-six episode pipeline – a larger count than had been seen since its first year. Producer Bert Granet, who began producing in the previous season, was soon replaced by William Froug as he moved on to other projects. The fifth season has always been considered the weakest and, as one reviewer stated, “undisputably the worst.” Harsh criticism. The lopsidedness of Seasons 4 and 5 – with a smattering of episodes that egregiously deviated from the TZ mold, made for a series much-changed from the one everyone had come to know. A possible reason for this was an abundance of rather disdainful or at least less-likeable characters. Most were simply too hard to warm up to, or at the very least, identify with. But it wasn’t just TZ that was changing. Television was no longer as new a medium. “It was a period of great ferment,” said George Clayton Johnson. By 1963, the idyllic world of the 1950s was disappearing by the day. More grittily realistic and reality-based TV shows were imminent, as per the viewing audience’s demand and it was only a matter of time before the curtain came down on the kinds of shows everyone grew to love in the 50s. -
"The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street" by Rod Serling ACT I
"The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street" by Rod Serling ACT I [Fade in on a shot of the sky...the various nebulae, and planet bodies stand out in sharp, sparkling relief. As the camera begins a slow pan across the heavens.] Narrator's Voice There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space, and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow - between science and superstition. And it lies between the pit of man's fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area which we call the Twilight Zone. [The CAMERA has begun to PAN DOWN until it passes the horizon and on a sign which reads, "Maple Street." PAN DOWN until we are shooting down at an angle toward the street below. It's a tree-lined, quiet residential American street, very typical of the small town. The houses have front porches on which people sit and swing on gliders, conversing across from house to house. Steve Brand polishes his car parked in front of his house. His neighbor, Don Martin, leans against the fender watching him. A Good Humor man rides a bicycle and is just in the process of stopping to sell some ice cream to a couple of kids. Two women gossip on the front lawn. Another man waters his lawn.] Narrator's Voice Maple Street, U.S.A., late summer. A tree-lined little world of front porch gliders, hop scotch, the laughter of children, and the bell of an ice cream vendor. -
Summer Camp Song Book
Summer Camp Song Book 05-209-03/2017 TABLE OF CONTENTS Numbers 3 Short Neck Buzzards ..................................................................... 1 18 Wheels .............................................................................................. 2 A A Ram Sam Sam .................................................................................. 2 Ah Ta Ka Ta Nu Va .............................................................................. 3 Alive, Alert, Awake .............................................................................. 3 All You Et-A ........................................................................................... 3 Alligator is My Friend ......................................................................... 4 Aloutte ................................................................................................... 5 Aouettesky ........................................................................................... 5 Animal Fair ........................................................................................... 6 Annabelle ............................................................................................. 6 Ants Go Marching .............................................................................. 6 Around the World ............................................................................... 7 Auntie Monica ..................................................................................... 8 Austrian Went Yodeling ................................................................. -
The Obsolete Man (And Woman, and Child, and Baby, and Race)” 1 Peter 2:17 18 January 2015
“The Obsolete Man (and Woman, and Child, and Baby, and Race)” 1 Peter 2:17 18 January 2015 What would you do if your government said that you had no value, no worth, no dignity and therefore you were obsolete? What would you do if your government said that it was going to dispose of you? Rod Serling tackled this in an episode of The Twilight Zone called “The Obsolete Man.” In this episode, Burgess Meredith, as expected, puts in a stellar performance as Romney Wordsworth, a man deemed obsolete by his country. Here’s a synopsis from Wikipedia- In a future totalitarian America, Romney Wordsworth is a man put on trial for the crime of being obsolete. His occupation as a librarian is a crime punishable by death as the State has eliminated books and literature. He believes in God, a crime also punishable by death, as the State claims to have proven that there is no God. He is prosecuted by the Chancellor, who announces in front of the assembled court that Wordsworth, in not being an asset to the State, shall be liquidated. After being convicted, Wordsworth is allowed to choose his method of execution. He cryptically requests that he be granted a personal assassin to whom he may privately disclose his preferred method of execution. He also requests that his execution be televised nationwide. Thinking that the spectacle will help show the public what happens when citizens become of no use to the State, the court grants both requests. A television camera is installed in Wordsworth's study to broadcast his final hours and execution live to the nation. -
Increasing Passersby Engagement with Public Large Interactive Surfaces
Increasing Passersby Engagement with Public Large Interactive Surfaces by Victor Cheung A thesis presented to the University of Waterloo in fulfillment of the thesis requirement for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Systems Design Engineering Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, 2016 ©Victor Cheung 2016 AUTHOR'S DECLARATION This thesis consists of material all of which I authored or co-authored: see Statement of Contributions included in the thesis. This is a true copy of the thesis, including any required final revisions, as accepted by my examiners. I understand that my thesis may be made electronically available to the public. ii Statement of Contributions The DISCOVER interaction model introduced in Chapter 3, and the studies presented in the subsequent chapters, are the result of collaborative work between me and my research colleagues. It is often difficult to state the exact amount of each person’s contributions or the exact evolution of the research. However, the following notes provide some indication for the amount of their involvement. 1. The DISCOVER interaction model was developed by me, in collaboration with Dr. Stacey Scott. An earlier, simplified version of this model was used by Mindy Seto in her thesis work (Seto, 2012) and a study on menu discoverability (Seto et al., 2012). I was the author and presenter of the paper describing the early stages of this model in a peer-reviewed international conference under the following citation: Cheung, V. (2014). Improving Interaction Discoverability in Large Interactive Displays. In Doctoral Symposium of ITS 2014: ACM Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces. Dresden, Germany, November 16-19, 2014. -
A Guild Is Born Dorothy Arzner
80-YEAR ANNIVERSARY The Screen KING VIDOR 1938 >“Women’s dramatic sense is “Directors Guild DOROTHY invaluable to the motion picture was organized industry,” said Dorothy Arzner, solely by ARZNER whose contributions include and for the First Female 80 YEARS STRONG motion picture being the first female member Member 1933 >The formation of the Directors director…. We of the Directors Guild. In early A GUILD Guild had been percolating for a are not anti- Hollywood, Arzner was a typist, number of years. Amid nationwide anything: the screenwriter, editor, and ultimately, director. IS BORN labor unrest in the country, the Guild being She is believed to have developed the boom mic, studios had been squeezing directors formed for the enabling actors to move and speak more easily purpose of both financially and creatively. The first step toward in early talkies. At one time under contract to assisting and Paramount, Arzner is organizing a guild occurred in 1933 outside the Hol- improving the lywood Roosevelt Hotel, after a meeting in which best known for directing director’s work such strong personalities the studios announced a 50 percent across-the-board in the form of pay cut. After the meeting, King Vidor and a handful a collective as Clara Bow, Claudette of directors congregated on the sidewalk and knew body, rather Colbert, Katharine something had to be done. They understood, as Vidor than as an Hepburn, and Joan put it, “We must have a guild to speak [for us], and individual. Crawford in films such not the individual, who can be hurt by standing up as Honor Among Lovers “I worked on my for his rights.” That guild was born in late 1935 and ” (1931) and Christopher first project under Strong (1933). -
Favorite Twilight Zone Episodes.Xlsx
TITLE - VOTING BRACKETS First Round Second Round Sweet Sixteen Elite Eight Final Four Championship Final Four Elite Eight Sweet Sixteen Second Round First Round Votes Votes Votes Votes Votes Votes Votes Votes Votes Votes Votes Votes Votes Votes 1 Time Enough at Last 57 56 Eye of the Beholder 1 Time Enough at Last Eye of the Beholder 32 The Fever 4 5 The Mighty Casey 32 16 A World of Difference 25 19 The Rip Van Winkle Caper 16 I Shot an Arrow into the Air A Most Unusual Camera 17 I Shot an Arrow into the Air 35 41 A Most Unusual Camera 17 8 Third from the Sun 44 37 The Howling Man 8 Third from the Sun The Howling Man 25 A Passage for Trumpet 16 Nervous22 Man in a Four Dollar Room 25 9 Love Live Walter Jameson 34 45 The Invaders 9 Love Live Walter Jameson The Invaders 24 The Purple Testament 25 13 Dust 24 5 The Hitch-Hiker 52 41 The After Hours 5 The Hitch-Hiker The After Hours 28 The Four of Us Are Dying 8 19 Mr. Bevis 28 12 What You Need 40 31 A World of His Own 12 What You Need A World of His Own 21 Escape Clause 19 28 The Lateness of the Hour 21 4 And When the Sky Was Opened 37 48 The Silence 4 And When the Sky Was Opened The Silence 29 The Chaser 21 11 The Mind and the Matter 29 13 A Nice Place to Visit 35 35 The Night of the Meek 13 A Nice Place to Visit The Night of the Meek 20 Perchance to Dream 24 24 The Man in the Bottle 20 Season 1 Season 2 6 Walking Distance 37 43 Nick of Time 6 Walking Distance Nick of Time 27 Mr. -
New to Hoopla
New to Hoopla - January 2014 A hundred yards over the rim Audiobook Rod Serling 00:37:00 2013 A most unusual camera Audiobook Rod Serling 00:38:00 2013 A murder in passing Audiobook Mark DeCastrique 08:35:00 2013 A sea of troubles Audiobook P. G. Wodehouse 00:30:00 2013 A short drink from a certain fountain Audiobook Rod Serling 00:39:00 2013 A small furry prayer Audiobook Steven Kotler 09:30:00 2010 A summer life Audiobook Gary Soto 03:51:00 2013 Accelerated Audiobook Bronwen Hruska 10:36:00 2013 American freak show Audiobook Willie Geist 05:00:00 2010 An amish miracle Audiobook Beth Wiseman 10:13:22 2013 An occurrence at owl creek bridge Audiobook Ambrose Bierce 00:28:00 2013 Andrew jackson's america: 1824-1850 Audiobook Christopher Collier 02:03:00 2013 Angel guided meditations for children Audiobook Michelle Roberton-Jones 00:39:00 2013 Animal healing workshop Audiobook Holly Davis 01:01:00 2013 Antidote man Audiobook Jamie Sutliff 08:23:00 2013 Ashes of midnight Audiobook Lara Adrian 10:00:00 2010 At the mountains of madness Audiobook H. P. Lovecraft 04:48:00 2013 Attica Audiobook Garry Kilworth 09:46:00 2013 Back there Audiobook Rod Serling 00:35:00 2013 Below Audiobook Ryan Lockwood 09:52:00 2013 Beyond lies the wub Audiobook Philip K. Dick 00:22:00 2013 Bittersweet love Audiobook Rochelle Alers 06:21:00 2013 Bottom line Audiobook Marc Davis 07:31:00 2013 Capacity for murder Audiobook Bernadette Pajer 07:52:00 2013 Cat in the dark Audiobook Shirley Rousseau Murphy 09:14:00 2013 Cat raise the dead Audiobook Shirley Rousseau Murphy -
Social Justice from the Twilight Zone: Rod Serling As Human Rights Activist
e Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy Social Justice from the Twilight Zone: Rod Serling as Human Rights Activist Hugh A.D. Spencer Toronto, Ontario, Canada [email protected] ABSTRACT Rod Serling achieved critical acclaim in the First Golden Age of Television writing realist teleplays that express a strong moral sense and social consciousness. With the decline of anthology drama at the close of the 1950s, Serling created The Twilight Zone, which would become a forum for telling relevant stories while circumventing commercial and bureaucratic interference. As a means of exploring Serling’s use of drama as a tool for social justice, this paper compares themes from The Twilight Zone and Night Gallery with charter and constitutional statements of human rights. The United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights is the moral template applied in this discussion. Serling saw drama as a political act and his commitment to social justice often extended to his activities off the page. The content and consequences of his 1968 speech at Moorpark College are cited as an important example of his real world political behavior. Keywords: Rod Serling, Twilight Zone, Night Gallery, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Science Fiction Television, Golden Age of Television, Television Censorship Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy 1 H. Spencer THINGS AND IDEAS: POLITICS AND SCIENCE FICTION The use of futuristic settings and narratives to convey social messages and political arguments is not new to science fiction in any medium. Examples range from the techno-optimism of Hugo Gernsback’s Ralph 124C 41+ (1911), the dystopias of Huxley, Zamyatin, and Atwood; the literary and cinematic future histories in Wells’ Things to Come (1936); and even the morality plays sometimes found in the television series Star Trek (1966-29) and Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987-94). -
Twilight Zone Series 3: Shadows and Substance Checklist
Twilight Zone Series 3: Shadows and Substance Checklist Base Cards # Card Title [ ] 145 A Quality of Mercy [ ] 146 A Quality of Mercy [ ] 147 A Quality of Mercy [ ] 148 A Quality of Mercy [ ] 149 A Quality of Mercy [ ] 150 A Quality of Mercy [ ] 151 A Game of Pool [ ] 152 A Game of Pool [ ] 153 A Game of Pool [ ] 154 A Game of Pool [ ] 155 A Game of Pool [ ] 156 A Game of Pool [ ] 157 The Dummy [ ] 158 The Dummy [ ] 159 The Dummy [ ] 160 The Dummy [ ] 161 The Dummy [ ] 162 The Dummy [ ] 163 I am the Night-Color Me Black [ ] 164 I am the Night-Color Me Black [ ] 165 I am the Night-Color Me Black [ ] 166 I am the Night-Color Me Black [ ] 167 I am the Night-Color Me Black [ ] 168 I am the Night-Color Me Black [ ] 169 Execution [ ] 170 Execution [ ] 171 Execution [ ] 172 Execution [ ] 173 Execution [ ] 174 Execution [ ] 175 A Passage for Trumpet [ ] 176 A Passage for Trumpet [ ] 177 A Passage for Trumpet [ ] 178 A Passage for Trumpet [ ] 179 A Passage for Trumpet [ ] 180 A Passage for Trumpet [ ] 181 Of Late I Think of Cliffordville [ ] 182 Of Late I Think of Cliffordville [ ] 183 Of Late I Think of Cliffordville [ ] 184 Of Late I Think of Cliffordville [ ] 185 Of Late I Think of Cliffordville [ ] 186 Of Late I Think of Cliffordville [ ] 187 Of Late I Think of Cliffordville [ ] 188 Of Late I Think of Cliffordville [ ] 189 Of Late I Think of Cliffordville [ ] 190 Jess-Belle [ ] 191 Jess-Belle [ ] 192 Jess-Belle [ ] 193 Jess-Belle [ ] 194 Jess-Belle [ ] 195 Jess-Belle [ ] 196 Jess-Belle [ ] 197 Jess-Belle [ ] 198 Jess-Belle [ ] 199 The Parallel