【2017年整理】The与MonstersareDueonMapleStreetRodSerling.ppt

The Monsters are Due on Maple Street Rod Serling;Drama;Classroom Activities Discussion;Message of the text;Message of the text;;In the decades after Frankenstein partly science fiction Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, and Herman Melville in the United States; Honore de Balzac in France; and Samuel Butler and Edward Bulwer-Lytton in England. ;Later in the 19th century Jules Verne raised science fiction to new heights and paved the way for the more innovative writings of H.G. Wells. The novels of H.G. Wells were published between 1895 and 1908. ;20th century (until the late 1930s). After this time science fiction went in two directions until the late 1930s. Europe produced a more pessimistic science fiction because it had just gone through the tragedy of World War I. US, relatively untouched by the war, was more open to optimistic fantasy stories. In the United States most science fiction was published in cheap pulp magazines (so called because of the cheap quality of their paper) and written by dozens of hack writers for large audiences. ;By the late 1940s the American pulp magazines had been superseded/replaced by better monthlies. The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction was founded in 1949 and Galaxy Science Fiction in 1950. The end of World War II It inaugurated the atomic age, and the space age was shortly to follow. Science fiction burgeoned as literature and soon found its way into movies and television. The television series Star Trek attracted a large following. The Star Wars series of motion pictures gained huge audiences. ;Science-fiction clubs had emerged in the 1930s and the first world convention/meeting was held in 1939. By the 1980s the World Science Fiction Conventions were drawing thousands of people yearly. Literary awards are given annually for the best science-fiction works. The Hugo award, named after Hugo Gernsback, was established in 1953 and the Nebula award in 1965. ;Background:;He co-wrote