Deuses, Demónios, Seres Míticos, Heterodoxos, Marginados, Operações, Lugares Mágicos e Iconografia da Tradição Lusíada
Este projecto, composto por três volumes, constitui o resultado de pesquisas efectuadas ao longo de três décadas por Manuel J. Gandra, investigador pioneiro no estudo da tradição cultural e espiritual do nosso país.Trata-se de um trabalho sem precedentes que, sob a forma de dicionário, nos dá a conhecer a riqueza impressionante e polifacetada da alma profunda mas, no geral, desconhecida da tradição portuguesa.Só no primeiro volume deste empreendimento inovador e de grande envergadura, o leitor tem acesso a 1300 entradas escritas com todo o rigor que caracteriza este autor.
«(…) Portugal Sobrenatural, guia essencial das pessoas, lugares, mitos e símbolos do Portugal profundo, que ainda falta cumprir, surge, justamente, com o desígnio de resgatar tal aptidão contemplativa, investindo na constituição de um corpo informal, porém sagaz e transversal, de inteligência, capacitado para (mesmo arrostando com toda a espécie de brumas, temporais e contra-tempos) ir além do tormentoso mar das paixões e medos, outrora figurado pelo Bojador.»
ROD SERLING. Born Edward Rodman Serling in Syracuse, New York, U.S.A., 25 December 1924. Educated at Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio, B.A. 1950. Married: Carolyn Kramer, 1948; two daughters. Served as paratrooper in U.S. Army during World War II. Worked as writer for WLW-Radio, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1946-48, WKRC-TV, Cincinnati, 1948-53; freelance writer, from 1953; producer, television series The Twilight Zone, 1959-64, and Night Gallery, from 1969; taught at Antioch College, 1950s and Ithaca College, 1970s. Honorary degrees: D.H.L., Emerson College, Boston, Massachusetts, 1971, and Alfred University, New York, 1972; Litt. D. from Ithaca College, 1972. President, National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, 1965-66; member of the council, Writers Guild of America West, 1965-67. Recipient: six Emmy Awards; Sylvania Awards, 1955 and 1956; Christopher Awards, 1956 and 1971; Peabody Award, 1957; Hugo Awards, 1960, 1961, and 1962. Died 28 June 1975.
Rod Serling was perhaps the most prolific writer in American television. It is estimated that during his twenty-five year career, from the late 1940s to 1975, over 200 of his teleplays were produced. This staggering body of work for television has ensured Serling's place in the history of the medium. His emphasis on character (psychology and motivation), the expedient handling of incisive, direct and forceful and painfully penetrating dialogue, alongside his moralizing subtext, placed him in a unique position to question mankind's prejudices and intolerance as he saw it.
TELEVISION PLAYS (selection, writer)
1953 "Nightmare at Ground Zero" Suspense
1953 "Old MacDonald Had a Curve" Kraft Television Theater
1954 "One for the Angels" Danger
1955 "Patterns" Kraft Television Theater
1955 "The Rack" U.S. Steel Hour
1956 "Requiem for a Heavyweight" Playhouse 90
1956 "Forbidden Area" Playhouse 90 (from Pat Frank's novel)
1957 "The Comedian" Playhouse 90
1959 "The Lonely" Twilight Zone
1959 "Time Enough at Last" Twilight Zone
1965-66 The Loner, 14 Episodes
1966 The Doomsday Flight
1970 "A Storm in Summer" Hallmark Hall of Fame
1971 "Make Me Laugh" Night Gallery
TELEVISION SERIES (producer)
1959-64 The Twilight Zone
1970-73 Night Gallery
FILMS (writer)
Patterns, 1956; Saddle the Wind (with Thomas Thompson), 1958; Requiem for a Heavyweight, 1962; The Yellow Canary, 1963; Seven Days in May, 1964; Assault on a Queen, 1966; Planet of the Apes (with Michael Wilson), 1968; A Time for Predators, 1971.
STAGE
The Killing Season, 1968.
PUBLICATIONS
Stories from the Twilight Zone. New York: Bantam, 1960.
More Stories from the Twilight Zone. New York: Bantam, 1961.
New Stories from the Twilight Zone. New York: Bantam, 1962.
Requiem for a Heavyweight (novel). New York: Bantam, and London: Corgi, 1962.
From the Twilight Zone (short stories). New York: Doubleday, 1962.
Night Gallery (short stories). New York: Bantam, 1971.
Night Gallery 2 (short stories). New York: Bantam, 1972.
Rod Serling's Night Gallery Reader. Greenberg, Martin H., Carol Serling, and Charles G. Waugh, editors. New York: Dembner Books, 1987.
Esta é uma justa homenagem a um autor e a uma série que me influenciou profundamente durante a minha infância/juventude. Depois de me ter espicaçado a imaginação, voltei a vê-la e percebi que cada episódio continha também uma mesagem muito importante. Esta série de culto irá sempre acompanhar-me e influênciar-me. Obrigado Rod Serling.
( por Igdrasil )