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03900aam a2200397 i 4500 001 57423ADECD6211EE9507C16149ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240217010049 008 230203s2023 kyua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2022060186 020 $a 0813199271 020 $a 9780813199276 020 $a 0813197848 020 $a 9780813197845 035 $a (OCoLC)1346215491 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d BDX $d YDX $d UKMGB $d JCX $d NYP $d IMD $d OCLCO $d VP@ $d NUI $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PN1992.77.T87 $b B76 2023 082 00 $a 791.45/72 $2 23/eng/20230203 100 1 $a Brokaw, David J., $e author. 245 10 $a Monsters on Maple Street : $b the Twilight Zone and the postwar American dream / $c David J. Brokaw. 264 1 $a Lexington : $b The University Press of Kentucky, $c 2023. 300 $a vii, 267 pages : $b illustrations (black and white) ; $c 23 cm 520 $a "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 TV 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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a 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. 630 00 $a Twilight zone (Television program : 1959-1964) 630 07 $a Twilight zone (Television program : 1959-1964) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01716124 650 0 $a Television programs $x History. $z United States $x History. 650 0 $a History. 650 7 $a Television programs $x Social aspects $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01147057 651 7 $a United States $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 655 7 $a History $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20240217011803.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=57423ADECD6211EE9507C16149ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search